Trustnet Magazine 86 July 2022 | Page 19

Baillie Gifford

“ We need to move away from this system of ‘ extract , use and dispose of ’ to one where we make things from more sustainable materials , keep them for longer and dispose of them more responsibly ”

Kate Fox Joint manager of the Baillie Gifford Positive Change Fund

petrochemicals , the system has a huge environmental impact . We need to move away from this system of ‘ extract , use and dispose of ’ to one where we make things from more sustainable materials , keep them for longer and dispose of them more responsibly .”
Synthetic biology is a field of science that involves designing organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have desirable characteristics and abilities . We can make ‘ better ’ materials and move towards a more circular economy – a system in which materials are retained for
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