Environmentalists around the world agree - plastic bags are choking our landfills and polluting our seas. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher is developing new laboratory methods using corn starch and sugar to help sustainable plastics - those that biodegrade and are even tougher than those made from petrochemicals - compete in the industry. The answer to the problem, Prof. Moshe Kol of Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry says, is a new variety of catalysts - substances that initiate or sustain chemical reactions in other substances...
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