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Fungi, enzymes, and closed-loop catalysis offer environmental, economic gains in manufacturing and recycling
Abstract
The industrial road from cotton boll to blue jeans or wood to paper wends along routes that are energyintensive or environmentally unfriendly. Expensive cleanup tolls also are inescapable— industry must bear the economic burden of continually recovering or disposing of waste materials deemed toxic or otherwise harmful to animal life or the environment.
Not surprisingly, the push is on to improve paper and textile production.
Researchers are finding ways to use bioprocessing and biotechnology to make paper and textile processing more environmentally friendly and energy efficient.
"We want to avoid environmental problems rather than recover from a situation where environmental problems have been caused," says Thomas E. Hamilton, director of the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), in Madison, Wis. "The focus has shifted from cleaning up afterward to avoiding problems in the first place." FPL is a unit of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.
Much of the solution lies in achieving easier access to cellulose ...
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