The future of plastic

Plastic, a highly useful and convenient material, is also one of the world’s greatest environmental problems, yet both industry and society are still heavily reliant on its usage. On World Environment Day, Nature Communications asks: will biodegradable polymers alleviate plastic’s environmental impa...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29872038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04565-2
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spelling pubmed-59888352018-06-07 The future of plastic Nat Commun Editorial Plastic, a highly useful and convenient material, is also one of the world’s greatest environmental problems, yet both industry and society are still heavily reliant on its usage. On World Environment Day, Nature Communications asks: will biodegradable polymers alleviate plastic’s environmental impact? Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5988835/ /pubmed/29872038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04565-2 Text en © Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Part of Springer Nature 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29872038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04565-2

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