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2026-08-25 13:30 UTC

Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies Because That’s the Future We Deserve

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  • @Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-08-25 14:54

    Digesting plastic into organic molecules is definitely good. Making it food-grade is probably impractical, but making it not plastic is good for sure.

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  • @aarch0x40@piefed.social 2026-08-25 14:40

    It’s good but nothing beat’s Mom’s homemade polyethylene.

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  • @_stranger_@lemmy.world 2026-08-26 03:44

    I can’t be the only person who was wondering how this guy torrented a cookie.

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  • @Headofthebored@lemmy.world 2026-08-25 13:43

    I think the people at Chips Ahoy already have that market cornered anyway.

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  • @werty@sh.itjust.works 2026-08-25 13:39

    “We produce 400 million tons a year of plastic waste. You’re not going to turn it all into cookies,” Jason Hallett at Imperial College London told New Scientist. “So it’s not a solution to the plastic-waste crisis. There’s no way you could do this commercially. We’re not gonna be eating plastic cookies.” That sounds like a challenge

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  • @mr_account@lemmy.world 2026-08-25 17:16

    Nobody else going to point out that the cookie in the thumbnail looks way too much like a condom?

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