Bananas Over Plastic

Thanks again to Claire Thompson for providing an entry. Claire writes:

The Polymer Processing Research Centre at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is contributing to the Badana project, an initiative with aims to convert mass wastes from banana plantations into usable forms of plastic. The plastic will be used to make items ranging from oil tanks to plastic dolls. Benefits from the project are said to include the reduction of polyethylene production, job creation in the Canary Islands, and financial benefits to the banana plantations. If successful, the Badana project may offset the 25,000 tonnes of banana waste that is dumped into ravines in the Canary Islands each year.

Links:

• Banana Plants May Be Used In Production Of Plastic Products via ScienceDaily
• Queen's researcher 'go bananas' via BBC News

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 7:00 AM on October 22, 2009