MIT Senior Turns Waste from the Fishing Industry Into Biodegradable Plastic
Sometimes the answers to seemingly intractable environmental problems are found in nature itself.
Take the growing challenge of plastic waste. Jacqueline Prawira, an MIT senior in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), has developed biodegradable, plastic-like materials from fish offal, as featured in a recent segment on the CBS show 'The Visioneers with Zay Harding.'
'We basically made plastics to be too good at their job. That also means the environment doesn't know what to do with this, because they simply won't degrade...
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