Good and bad news: The correct polymer was available at the plant, but was being shipped that evening to another customer.

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They would be converted into glucose (of which cellulose, which makes up much of the dry weight of a plant, is a polymer) and the glucose would be shipped around much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels and bioplastics.

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It turned out Don's plant had shipped the wrong polymer.

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