Bio-Nylon

Cleaning Up Nylon

Genomatica Bio-nylon
Bio-Nylon

SPECIAL MENTION: Some 8 billion pounds of nylon are produced every year to make clothes, carpets, car interiors and toothbrush bristles, burning fossil fuels and emitting highly toxic nitrous oxide in the process. San Diego-based biotechnology company Genomatica wants to change that by replacing conventional nylon with sustainable bio-nylon, which is made instead from plant-based sugars. —Laignee Barron

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