Elif bilgin made banana peels into bioplastic

Turkish teen won Scientific American's Science in Action Prize! 28 June 2013

Turkish teen won Scientific American's Science in Action Prize Elif Bilgin's idea of using banana peels as a alternative for old-school petroleum-based plastics. The 16-year-old student from Istanbul spent two years perfecting a way to make a bioplastic out of...

Keywords: scientific discovery, scientific discovery, scientific american, petroleum-based plastics

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