Suffice to say you eat cellulose every time you eat a salad or fruit, or any other plant-derived food.
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It is part of a quiet move by the company to be less dependent on synthetically created chemicals, which include the main components in Scotts' distinctive blue Miracle-Gro plant food.
Sun Valley Foods, which supplies chickens to a range of supermarkets, is adding a new packing hall to its food-processing plant in Hereford.
Some of the data it gathered about the abundance of phytoplankton - plant-like organisms that convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and provide food for other sea life - could already be monitored by satellite.
However, while current leading bioplastics, such as PLA, primarily use feed grains as a plant resource, the possibility of future food shortages has emphasized the importance of using non-edible plant resources to produce bioplastics.
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The mother of a two-year-old boy who died after drinking plant food has been found guilty of child neglect.
Engineers restored power to some reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant over the weekend, although new concerns about food contamination appeared after radiation levels were detected in tap water near the complex.
From Bae Bo, walk south for excellent food in Chinatown and Little India, or north for the plant- and garden-focused The wet market.
For example, Ms. Obama made a lot of headlines by starting a kitchen garden at the White House and inviting school kids in to kind of help plant the garden and try to re-introduce them to the joys of fresh food and so forth.
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And they would have to decide not just which crops to plant but whether to use them for food, carbon capture or things like bio-industrial raw materials.
The civil-defence authorities have imported cassava to plant from Brazil, and plan a fortnightly food parcel to each family in the interior for the next six months.
In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.
Food foraging in Wales is big business, and a number of bush explorer and plant-lore identification courses now run the length and breadth of the country.
Eindhoven-based food group Vion said supplying Asda represented about 50% of business at its Gaerwen plant.
Cellulosic ethanol uses non-food feed stocks with significant greenhouse gas emission reductions, and the first commercial-scale plant is being built today in Soperton, Ga.
James Stoppert, president of Cargill Dow Polymers, is hoping to build a polylactide plant that will start up in 2002 and produce 300 million pounds a year for the textile and food-packaging markets.
Earlier this month the Eindhoven-based food group Vion confirmed that supplying Asda represents about 50% of business at the Gaerwen plant.
James Stoppert, president of Cargill Dow Polymers, is hoping to build a polylactide plant that will start up in 2002 and produce 135, 000 tonnes a year for the textile and food-packaging markets.
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