Eliminating Plastic Consumption by Using Agricultural Residues

“That’s the dream,” says researcher Hanne Dalsvåg. If the researchers succeed, in the future you might be able to buy vegetables wrapped in packaging made from waste carrot or potato residues.

“A lot of Norwegian agriculture residues currently have little value. We need to do something about this, like use these leftover raw materials in packaging,” says SINTEF researcher Hanne Dalsvåg.

She heads up the Agriwaste project, which is mapping the potential for producing packaging using residual raw materials from Norwegian agriculture. Dalsvåg and her colleague Theresa Rücker are working with several other researchers on the project.

Residual waste are the raw by-products left over after the main crops have been harvested, such as peels from vegetables, skins or fish bones.

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Source: ENN