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Comment Cellulose! (Score 1) 56

Cellulose, which is what holds trees up, eventually breaks down via bacteria, which evolved that ability because cellulose became common around 300m years ago. Termites have such bacteria in their guts to assist with metabolism.

The details have yet to be worked out, but it's a possible plastic substitute. It has properties very similar to plastic when processed certain ways. The downside is the microbes would eventually eat your spank-bank laptop.

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