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This cookie started its life as a plastic bottle
Plastic might be the last ingredient you would ever add to a cookie recipe. But a team of researchers is looking to change that. They’ve programmed yeasts to turn plastic and agricultural waste into edible proteins and flavoring molecules, creating a treat from trash. The technology not only offers a new upcycling method, but could also sustain life in disaster zones or manned deep-space missions. The researchers will present their results at ACS Fall 2026.
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forbes.com
Here’s How Scientists Turned Plastic Bottles Into Nutritious Cookies
By using microbes to break down plastic, and baker's yeast to introduce vanilla flavor, researchers have turned waste into food.
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sciencealert.com
Scientists Just Made A Cookie Out of Recycled Plastic 'Slurry'. Welcome to 2026
Would you eat a cookie that was made from plastic? Technically, we're all ingesting an ungodly amount of plastic already, in the form of micro- and nanoscopic particles in our…
