Memo+8-Peopling+a+Project

new products are developed that use alternatives to PLA ||  ||
 * Petrol arrives at the turn of the century || Industry shifts to cheap fuel and feedstocks || Gas gets expensive in the 70's and early 2000's ||
 * World War II || Industry and Military develop tons of useful and deadly products from petrol || Agent Orange and Napalm don't look particularly attractive in photos when they are alongside and on innocent people. ||
 * War on Terror || Bushism rules the world || people finally realize that this is mostly about oil in Iraq and U.S. imperialism ||
 * War on Terror || Halliburton makes billions || Halliburton, one of the largest companies holding global oil reserves, implodes ||
 * Ford needs a new marketing gimmick and is interested in Ag feedstocks for cars || Consumers are introduced to a plastic car to great fanfare || WWII stops auto production and oil gets cheap ||
 * PLA gets beat up in the press for biodegradability and compostability limitations || bioplastic fans get concerned
 * EN13432 and ASTM D6400 standards are produced || Industry attempts to meet standards, which are pretty tough || The standards are different and the U.S. does a crappy job of delineating compostability in industrial facilities and consumers gardens ||
 * Internship opportunity opens up at Gov.'s office || Sean gets introduced to lots of material on biofuels and bioplastics || Sean hasn't quite figured out how to turn this into a thesis ||
 * Bush states that Americans are addicted to oil || USDA gets money to invest in biomass research and development || People finally realize that corn ethanol is a terrible idea and biomass gets a bad name. ||