The Truth About Biodegradable Plastic

This week, the truth about “biodegradable plastic,” and new insights into how global warming might eventually make winters colder.

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Sources:
http://www.livescience.com/32233-how-environmentally-friendly-are-plastics.html
http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/es504258u
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/acs-mpl031815.php
http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2015/03/Biodegradable-Plastics-Dont-Live-Claims.html
http://ei.cornell.edu/biodeg/
https://books.google.com/books?id=EMY9yvdduxcC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=Transition-metal+salts+biodegradable&source=bl&ots=RrCqXyu4cr&sig=jslug4ECrrDig1-E3VdkHO_hh-o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0EYQVbviFYS5ogTVwYGQBw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Transition-metal%20salts%20biodegradable&f=false
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-plastics-biodegradable-dont.html

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/150290/
http://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2015-03/pifc-aoo032015.php

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