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Plant material is converted into fully recyclable plastic products.
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Professor James Dumesic, center, with his crack team of researchers Juben Chheda, left, and Yuriy Román-Leshkov, right.
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In a sustainable cycle, carbon compunds are turned into plastics and fuels, and any CO2 that is released is taken back up by plant material.