Comment on Researchers turn spoiled milk into 3D printing materials — extracted proteins from dairy waste combined with polymers to create plastic alternative

chocrates@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• moody@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, you misunderstood. Milk combined with plastic makes an alternative to plastic. Easy mistake to make.

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• zout@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Basically. Also, we'd have to think about the ethicality of keeping cattle for plastic production.

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  • chocrates@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are suggesting using milk waste, so it is recapturing existing waste at least

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    • zout@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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