43 shares The way we get these materials hasn’t changed in centuries and is very inefficient, study author Luis F. Velásquez-García told MIT News. This is a real chance to bypass all that inefficiency.
Unlike fossil fuel-derived alternatives, plant-based products are often lauded for being renewable, but current rates of consumption are unsustainable.
There s now a strain on agricultural resources in response to the ever-increasing demands for food and non-food crops, which researchers say has generated lasting environmental consequences .
Consumption of wood and the clearing of wooded areas to access arable lands resulted in the global loss of over 500,000 square miles of natural forests between 1990 and 2016 – an area roughly two and half times the size of France.