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Here’s How Scientists Turned Plastic Bottles Into Nutritious Cookies - Forbes

Here’s How Scientists Turned Plastic Bottles Into Nutritious Cookies - Forbes

By using microbes to break down plastic, and baker's yeast to introduce vanilla flavor, researchers have turned waste into food.

Researchers at Southern Illinois University have engineered microbes that can break down discarded plastic bottles and crop waste and turn them into protein-rich cookies, a step-by-step biological tr… [+2850 chars]

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