Wrap Made For use As Fuel

Dr. Richard Gross of Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., holds bioplastic, which is made from vegetable oils. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

By Matthew L. Wald, New York Times News Service | April 9, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Scientists worldwide are struggling to make motor fuel from waste, but Richard Gross has taken an unusual approach: making a "fuel-latent plastic," designed for conversion. It can be used like ordinary plastic, for packaging or other purposes, but when it is waste, can easily be turned into a substitute diesel fuel.

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