Sunday, January 27, 2019

Olive Pits to Plastic???

"When the road appears, you start walking" Rumi

 In yet another wonderful example of how careful olive production can result in a zero or negative carbon footprint, check out this new work in which three scientists from Istanbul discovered a way in which waste pits from olive production can see a new life as a source of plastic to use in electronics and food packaging.....

CHECK IT OUT HERE

3 comments:

  1. Hello!

    Would it by any means be possible asking a question from you regarding the Prussian blue method for determining the phenolic content of olive oil? I am a high school student and I am doing a chemistry project where I am determining the phenolic content of olive oil using the Prussian blue assay. I thought you would know about this topic because I read about this in your article "Making Sense of Olive Oil: Simple Experiments To Connect Sensory Observations with the Underlying Chemistry". I would like to know about the method you propose in the article in more detail, if possible.

    Best regards, Max Tsivourakis

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    1. Dear Max,
      I am so sorry, but for whatever reason, this comment did not get forwarded to me and I just stumbled across it as I was looking for something else. Of course you can ask more about this method. My email is pbohara@amherst.edu

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