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    Ford adds wheat straw plastic to a small corner of the 2010 Flex
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    Ford's wheat straw bio-filled polypropylene - click to enlarge
    Soy seats aren't Ford's only way to introduce as many bio-materials as possible into a production vehicle. See also: Mazda's biofabric and Toyota's "ecological plastics." Ford announced today that a new wheat straw-reinforced plastic ...

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    Toyota will use "ecological plastics" in new Prius interior
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    Click for a gallery of the 2010 Prius
    When the new Prius debuts next month at the Detroit Auto Show, its interior will feature significant use of so-called "ecological plastics." These are polymer materials derived from biomass oils rather than petroleum. Toyota had its first application of ...

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    Mazda working on cellulosic biomass based plastic
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    Ford has been developing lots of different materials from renewable sources including the soyfoam that they introduced in the Mustang seats for 2008. Now Ford's Japanese affiliate Mazda has kicked off a new research program with hometown school Hiroshima University to develop a new type of plastic. ...

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