LINK Company Turns Avocado Pit Waste Into Biodegradable Straws and Cutlery
The trouble is some biodegradable plastics are still made from fossil fuel, and 80 percent of biodegradable “bioplastics” are made from food sources, like corn.
And… biodegradable plastics typically cost around 40 percent more than regular plastic.
A Mexican biochemical engineer named Scott Munguia has come up with a solution.
Avocado pits.
His company Biofase is located in the heart of Mexico’s avocado industry, where it turns 15 tons of avocado pits per day into biodegradable straws and cutlery.
I’ll bet a straw made from an avocado pit holds up better than a paper straw.
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