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Vegan food, high-quality textiles, bio-plastic, carbon fibres, biogas or aviation fuel: all of this practically grows on the meadow. Scientists now want to develop grass as a universal raw material.
There are so many major issues for the future, and they are all urgent: How can we replace fossil fuels sustainably? What can be done to stem the global flood of plastic? Are there environmentally friendly alternatives to resource-intensive soy and cotton production? Uffe Jörgensen's answer to all these questions is: grass, grass and more grass. The agricultural ecologist from the Danish University of Aarhus has been researching the green raw material on his doorstep for nine years.
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