This work turns what would otherwise be an agricultural liability into a potential input for advanced manufacturing.
cue them letting milk spoil on purpose while people starve, because selling it to industry has higher margins than catering to the peasants.
We already have that with corn ethanol additives to gasoline.
i’m actually pretty surprised to just find out the us is the biggest ethanol producer in the world. didn’t know you guys had that many flex fuel/ethanol cars.
It’s almost impossible to find gas without at least 10% ethanol included here.
Some gas stations sell 85% ethanol, and other ratios, but it’s really the 10% mix that’s the bulk of the sales.
There are a few stations in my town that sell 0% ethanol gas, but they are increasingly rare.
“combined with polymers” so milk with plastic makes plastic?
No, you misunderstood. Milk combined with plastic makes an alternative to plastic. Easy mistake to make.
Basically. Also, we’d have to think about the ethicality of keeping cattle for plastic production.
They are suggesting using milk waste, so it is recapturing existing waste at least
They are also suggesting polymer waste. The thing is, nobody is going to build a plant to make this if one of the raw materials isn’t readily available. So you’d either need to make sure that there’s always polymer and milk waste available, or you need a back up if it isn’t.
