According to an October 26, 2020 news release, researchers with Australian RMIT University have developed a “… low-cost method for recycling used cooking oil and agricultural waste into biodiesel, and turning food scraps and plastic rubbish into high-value products … The method harnesses a new type of ultra-efficient catalyst that can make low-carbon biodiesel and other valuable complex molecules … the team fabricated a micron-sized ceramic sponge … that can perform several chemical reactions in sequence … The sponge-like catalysts are cheap to manufacture, using no precious metals … It’s a low-technology, low-cost approach … The next steps … are scaling up the catalyst fabrication from grams to kilograms and adopting 3D printing technologies to accelerate commercialization …” – The web link to the news release is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News http://www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/2020/10/29/plastic-waste-conversion-into-high-value-products/ #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #FoodWaste #BioDiesel
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
