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A Feather in Your Bottle Cap
Researchers aim to turn animal waste into plastic |
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29 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:42 PM on 29 May 2008 File this under "ew": Researchers in New Zealand have developed a process to convert animal protein waste -- that'd be blood and feathers -- into plastic. "The material we can produce has the strength of polyethylene, the plastic used in milk bottles and plastic supermarket bags, but it's fully biodegradable," says Dr. Johan Verbeek, adding, "Plant proteins ha ... |
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