
Agricultural waste
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Search complete. 8 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Agricultural waste".
Oct 5, 2026
3D Printed Cookie That Starts as a Plastic Bottle
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0:52Sina McCulloughHOST
We now have, um...
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0:54Sina McCulloughHOST
Now, these are not for sale, but let me tell you, um, a, a direction in which I think this is going, okay? So we have genetically engineered 3D-printed cookies that are being made from recycled plastic and agricultural waste products.
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1:12Sina McCulloughHOST
So this, this creation was born out of NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge.
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1:21Sina McCulloughHOST
Okay, this was a challenge that they posed because, um, NASA is targeting a man on the moon in...
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2:35Sina McCulloughHOST
They have, they start with plastic.
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2:37Sina McCulloughHOST
So this would be like plastic water bottles, for example, and they treat them with heat, water, pressure, and oxygen.
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2:47Sina McCulloughHOST
They break down that plastic and, and agricultural waste into smaller carbon molecules, and that creates like this liquid, what they're calling a liquid feedstock.
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2:58Sina McCulloughHOST
The liquid's put in a bioreactor and yeast are put in there.
Episode #265: Did RFK Jr. Keep His Promises, Edible Plastic Cookies, and the Rise of 3D-Printed Nutrition
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12:31Sina McCulloughHOST
We now have, um...
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12:32Sina McCulloughHOST
Now, these are not for sale, but let me tell you, um, a, a direction in which I think this is going, okay? So we have genetically engineered 3D-printed cookies that are being made from recycled plastic and agricultural waste products.
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12:51Sina McCulloughHOST
So this, this creation was born out of NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge.
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12:59Sina McCulloughHOST
Okay, this was a challenge that they posed because, um, NASA is targeting a man on the moon, in...
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14:07Sina McCulloughHOST
So they're taking, um... and I, I'm just gonna go through this in, in brief.
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14:14Sina McCulloughHOST
They have, they start with plastic, so this would be, like, plastic water bottles, for example, and they treat them with heat, water, pressure, and oxygen.
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14:25Sina McCulloughHOST
They break down that plastic and, and agricultural waste into smaller carbon molecules, and that creates, like, this liquid, what they're calling a liquid feedstock.
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14:37Sina McCulloughHOST
The liquid's put in a bioreactor, and yeast are put in there.