Originally published at: Scientists have invented a plastic alternative made of sperm | Boing Boing
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Can you make condoms out of it?
Where the hell are they going to find any sperm? The stuff doesn’t exactly grow on trees, now does it!
Why?
More why?
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From the linked source, sperm is just a catchy title.
Though the team of Chinese scientists created their raw materials from salmon sperm, DNA carries the genetic code for every living thing on Earth. A study from 2015 estimates that there are around 50 billion tonnes of DNA on the planet.That means we could technically make the plastic out of other sustainable sources such as waste material from crops, algae or bacteria.
Which begs the question, why not use plant DNA to begin with?
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Green plastic, it’s made of people!
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