This bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry
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RR Phantom
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Subject: This bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry Mon Jun 11, 2018 8:32 pm
It doesn't make honey, live in a hive or have yellow stripes, but the unassuming Australian masked bee holds the key to disrupting the trillion-dollar global plastics industry.
A biotech start-up company has found the solitary masked bee's cellophane-like nesting material is not only water-repellent, as expected, but also resistant to flames, high temperatures and strong chemicals.