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You Gonna Eat That? It Could Become Plastic

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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  1. save some time by Hubert_Shrump · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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