The student made from the peel of the banana bioplastics

Sixteen-year-old student of Turkish origin elif Bilgin has developed a chemical process by which the peel of bananas is transformed into sustainable bioplastics at the time.





It's a new development, hopes a student will help to reduce the volume of traditional plastic from petroleum. Research was spent 2 years.

Bilgin, took first place and received a prize of $ 50 000 in the competition of Scientific American Science in Action, and in due time became a finalist in the Google Science Fair 2013.

She noticed that the mango skin is already somewhere used to get plastic in this industry, and found banana skins potentially significant source. Cellulose and starch the top layer of the banana peel can be turned into bioplastics suitable for wiring insulation and even for medical prostheses. According to her, only in Thailand each year the landfill is 200 tons of banana peels, instead of reducing the dependence on oil and to reduce emission of greenhouse gases. The student hopes that it created the technology in the future will benefit and help in the fight against pollution.

Source: greenevolution.ru