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Scientists create concrete replacement from food leftovers
cbsaustin ^ | June 11, 2021 | Grainger Laffan

Posted on 06/11/2021 11:00:36 AM PDT by bgill

Researchers in Japan have created a concrete replacement out of food scraps — and the new compound can be both edible and sweet-smelling...

His earlier research resulted in a technique for combining recycled concrete powder and wood waste to form an improved material through heat pressing. That sparked interest in using other waste products.

“A similar approach can be applied to not only wood, but also to vegetables and fruit, and that is what we did,” he said...

“It is said that one-third of food is wasted in the whole world.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan
KEYWORDS: concrete; foodwaste; recycle
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To: bgill

It holds its original smell,” said Sakai. “You can smell orange if you make samples from oranges.”

Awesome. Buildings that perpetually smell like rotting fruits and vegetables.


21 posted on 06/11/2021 11:59:02 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: cuban leaf

That’s so funny.

In our neighborhood one house has a pink bin. ????


22 posted on 06/11/2021 11:59:27 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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To: Red Badger
The rats, and roaches will love it.................

That's the whole point of such envirofreak schemes. They think humans are here to serve nature.

23 posted on 06/11/2021 11:59:58 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: bgill
Scientists create concrete replacement from food leftovers

Yeah, I sometimes have those kind'a problems myself... :(

24 posted on 06/11/2021 12:01:23 PM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: bgill

They should have used the first biscuits I ever made from scratch all by myself. Those things were rocks!


25 posted on 06/11/2021 12:04:48 PM PDT by CFW
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To: bgill

China has this Western ‘innovation’ beat they use cardboard as a filler or sometimes plaster ...

Neither of which are very strong or long lasting.


26 posted on 06/11/2021 12:21:53 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: bgill

75% of people are taking a termination shot in lieu of trusting God and their immune systems. If some doctors predictions are right, Planet Earth will have a population of 2 billion and falling within my childrens lifetime.


27 posted on 06/11/2021 1:27:37 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: bgill

Fruitcake Fortifications erected while you watch.

Amazing what mankind is likely to devolve back to.

but not surprising.

Bon Appetit!!


28 posted on 06/11/2021 1:50:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!!)
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To: Red Badger

No kidding-and here in the boonies, if you built with that edible concrete, you could come home from work to find that your barn, garage, etc is damaged and falling down because the foundation is being snacked on by everything from raccoons to deer-and wild hogs rooting it up and eating the pieces...

In this household, all veggie and fruit scraps get put out daily for the deer and other critters-nothing goes to waste here...


29 posted on 06/11/2021 1:56:16 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: bgill

That is for certain-and imagine a house built on an edible concrete foundation-the 1st time we had a Winter like the last one-with all that snow and frigid weather-the local rats would collapse your house in a couple of days by eating the foundation-even an army of cats wouldn’t stop them...


30 posted on 06/11/2021 2:04:52 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: bgill

Old fruitcake would fit the bill.


31 posted on 06/11/2021 2:13:28 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: cuban leaf

Bkmk


32 posted on 06/11/2021 2:32:46 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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