Is Food From Plastic Trash In Your Future? – IOTW Report

Is Food From Plastic Trash In Your Future?

Newsweek

Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a food generator concept that turns plastics into protein.

The 2021 Future Insight Prize went to Ting Lu, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Stephen Techtmann, associate professor of biological sciences at Michigan Technological University, for their project. It uses microbes to degrade plastic waste and convert it into food. More

10 Comments on Is Food From Plastic Trash In Your Future?

  1. Wait. The push is on to ban all fossil fuels, right? So what happens when the scientists run out of “plastic waste”, do we go back to planting corn and wheat?
    I’m no scientist, but don’t atoms have their own , um, thing.

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  2. Gee, now we can look forward to the day when we can enter a restaurant, certainly masked, after showing our vaxxxine passport. After being seated, the waiter approaches, wearing a mask and gloves. He offers the menu and suggests the daily specials- “May I suggest a nice filet of #5 or the #2 is our chef’s special…”
    we already are eating plastic. Micro-plastic particles are everywhere, including our bodies.
    BAN SINGLE USE PLASTICS

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