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Environmental movements oppose sustainable, but also high-tech products such as the detergent Ecover. One of its ingredients is manufactured using synthetic biology, a relatively new technique in which scientists redesign cells to give them new properties. At Ecover, an algae has been adapted in such a way that it makes an oil that would have to be extracted from the oil palm without this technique. The tropical rainforests are being cleared on a large scale to create plantations. The use of algae as production machines is therefore good for the environment and biodiversity
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In the production of Ecover, a high-quality technique is used to extract palm oil from the oil palm.
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Not true. The oil is extracted from an adapted algae.