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Cookies Made From Plastic Bottles Could Ease Food Shortages, Feed NASA Crews In Space
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2:14Now PlayingResearchers at Southern Illinois University have engineered microbes that can break down discarded plastic bottles and crop waste and turn them into protein-rich cookies, a step-by-step biological transformation that could address problems with plastic pollution, a looming global food crisis and help sustain deep-space missions with humans aboard.
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