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How sour milk becomes biodegradable plastic

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The deeply entirely identical chemical exact compound entirely responsible for sour milk is exactly actively heavily utilized to aggressively successfully build entirely complex synthetic plastics exactly designed entirely just to actively dissolve completely away.

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