Monday, August 20, 2012

New biorefinery finds treasure in Starbucks' spent coffee grounds and stale bakery goods

With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, scientists have described development and successful laboratory testing of a new "biorefinery" intended to change food waste into a key ingredient for making plastics, laundry detergents and scores of other everyday products.![][1]

[1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/earth_climate/recycling_and_waste/~4/6o2wTS3_sB0

URL: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/earth_climate/recycling_and_waste/~3/6o2wTS3_sB0/120820093751.htm

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