From: THE MEDICAL NEWS
Just as cooking helps people digest food, pretreating polycarbonate
plastic - source of a huge environmental headache because of its
bisphenol A (BPA) content - may be the key to disposing of the
waste in an eco-friendly way, scientists have found. Their new
study is in ACS' Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal.
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