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didn't he make a corn car? with all the excess corn they made corn plastics for a while
i had a corn pen that allegedly would biodegrade if i buried it just right with enough light and air blahblahblah
and unsurprisingly never were fans of the hemp plastics
When I lived in Ann Arbor, my friend, Tom Deem, whose father was a vice president of Ford in charge of European sales, showed me a picture of his grandfather and Henry Ford standing next to a Model T. All the body parts were made from soy plastic. Tom said his grandfather was in charge of the plastic project, but that it ultimately didn't go anywhere.
ah, yes, it was soy.
the corn thing was attempted in the mid 80's i think
i'm not getting all aggro about agro right now
just wait for the harvest moon