16 year-old (female) Invents Bio-plastic from Banana Peels

[Tuesday Afternoon]

True Activist.

What comes to mind before you discard your banana peel? Certainly not the consideration of its use to reduce petroleum-based pollution and create bio-plastic, yet this is exactly what Elif Bilgin, 16, from Istanbul, Turkey, sought to achieve and successfully accomplished. Winner of the 2013 Science in Action award, Google’s third $50,000 annual competition, she addressed the need for environmentally friendly alternatives with practical resources and easy-to-attain banana peels.

more at link:
http://www.trueactivist.com/16-year-old-invents-sustainable-bio-plastic-from-banana-peels/

[ismnotwasm]

1. Cool

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. yep.

[PumpkinAle]

3. Brilliant mind there

hope she achieves her dream - she will make an awesome doc.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. yep.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Awesome! K&R

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. yep.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Another nineteen here

19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented by Women http://mentalfloss.com/article/53164/19-things-you-might-not-know-were-invented-women

And that's aside from 15 Female Scientists Who Changed the World http://www.ekgclasses.org/15-female-scientists-who-changed-the-world/

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. good post!

[WhiteTara]

8. I hope her ideas come to fruition

and that the chemical companies don't block her way.

[ailsagirl]

9. Yeh-- we can't forgot *those* crooks

[eggplant]

11. "fruition" Hah! I get it! ;-) n/t

[Orrex]

10. These pesky kids!

What a amazing and disciplined mind!

[mettamega]

12. fantastic :-) evolution is alive and well -

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. :)

Awe inspiring!

[ismnotwasm]

14. You know a lot of science fiction

Will have a plot that kind of laughs at actually having petroleum based industries. Sci-Fi can be a great future indicator sometimes

[AAO]

16. Elif, you keep creating a new reality. Your parents must be so proud.