You Gonna Eat That? It Could Become Plastic

Posted by timothy on Monday December 9, 2002 @04:26AM from the infinite-parkbenches dept.

Kaz Riprock writes "Jian Yu and associates at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute have been working on a system to convert food waste into plastic polymers. There is a CNN article that gives an overview of the process. More information on the anaerobic acidogenesis and aerobic synthesis at Dr. Yu's page at HNEI. This could be a really good step in the right direction, assuming it provides a cheaper source of plastic than current methods (to be accepted and highly regarded by the plastic industry)."

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Nice, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-09 04:32 · Score: 2, Funny

So much time is dedicated to solving special cases, could someone please come up with a generic matter converter instead?
save some time by Hubert_Shrump · 2002-12-09 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

In the case of Moon Pies, you can begin milling / molding operations immediately.

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So remember, kids... by VikingBerserker · 2002-12-09 06:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Finish everything on your plate like your mother told you. There are plenty of kids in desperate need of plastics in China.