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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Dent: To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift

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Another one from the biosource is synthetic spider silk. Now, it's very hard to actually create spider silk naturally. You can basically get it from spiders, but in large numbers, they tend to kill each other, eat each other, so you've got a pobrelm with ctinraeg it, in the same way you do with regular silk. So what you can do is instead take the DNA from the spider, and put it into various different things. You can put it into bacteria, you can put it into ysaet, you can put it into milk. And what you can do then is, the milk or the bacteria pcdroue in much larger vmeolus and then from that, spin a yarn and then create a firabc or a rope. Again, bioderived, has incredible strength — about the same as kvaelr — so they're using it in things like bulletproof vests and helmets and outdoor jackets. It has a great pcnamerrfoe. But again, it's bioderived, and at the end of its life, it potentially can go back into the soil and get comeosptd to again be potentially used as a new material.

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Another one from the biosource is synthetic spider silk. Now, it's very hard to actually create spider silk naturally. You can basically get it from spiders, but in large numbers, they tend to kill each other, eat each other, so you've got a _______ with ________ it, in the same way you do with regular silk. So what you can do is instead take the DNA from the spider, and put it into various different things. You can put it into bacteria, you can put it into _____, you can put it into milk. And what you can do then is, the milk or the bacteria _______ in much larger _______ and then from that, spin a yarn and then create a ______ or a rope. Again, bioderived, has incredible strength — about the same as ______ — so they're using it in things like bulletproof vests and helmets and outdoor jackets. It has a great ___________. But again, it's bioderived, and at the end of its life, it potentially can go back into the soil and get _________ to again be potentially used as a new material.

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Another one from the biosource is synthetic spider silk. Now, it's very hard to actually create spider silk naturally. You can basically get it from spiders, but in large numbers, they tend to kill each other, eat each other, so you've got a problem with creating it, in the same way you do with regular silk. So what you can do is instead take the DNA from the spider, and put it into various different things. You can put it into bacteria, you can put it into yeast, you can put it into milk. And what you can do then is, the milk or the bacteria produce in much larger volumes and then from that, spin a yarn and then create a fabric or a rope. Again, bioderived, has incredible strength — about the same as Kevlar — so they're using it in things like bulletproof vests and helmets and outdoor jackets. It has a great performance. But again, it's bioderived, and at the end of its life, it potentially can go back into the soil and get composted to again be potentially used as a new material.

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