3D Printed Cookie That Starts as a Plastic Bottle

They're called micro bites

And the fact is, you know, nature, nature doesn't have any waste.

And so all of these, these, quote-unquote, ag wastes should be kept on site.

A, a farm should not have any waste product.

They start with plastic.

So this would be like plastic water bottles.

Okay, so let me read the headline to you and I'll tell you my thoughts.

Scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies because that's the future we deserve.

That's literally a, a headline, a news headline.

And I thought, "Okay, Joel, oh my goodness.

Okay, so they've, they've genetically modified our corn, our soy, like, you know, all these things they come af- they've come after, but now they've gone too far, 'cause now they're coming after the cookies." [laughs] Like-

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so, so this is what's happened.

We now have, um...

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.

So this, this creation was born out of NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge.

Okay, this was a challenge that they posed because, um, NASA is targeting a man on the moon in...

I'm sorry, a man on Mars.

Already been there.

A man on the Mar- on Mars in the late 2030s to the early 2040s, and they're saying that, um, th- they need to be able to feed a crew of astronauts on this deep space mission for at least two to three years, okay? So they set out a challenge that they're trying to see if people can figure out how to solve this food problem for them while improving life here on Earth.

So there were, um, over 300 teams that entered, over 32 different countries.

The competition, I think, lasted about four years.

It has ended, and one of the entries included these cookies.

They're called micro bites.