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Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts) Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:23 PM Jan 2014

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16 year-old (female) Invents Bio-plastic from Banana Peels

True Activist.

What comes to mind before you discard your banana peel? Certainly not the consideration of its use to reduce petroleum-based pollution and create bio-plastic, yet this is exactly what Elif Bilgin, 16, from Istanbul, Turkey, sought to achieve and successfully accomplished. Winner of the 2013 Science in Action award, Google’s third $50,000 annual competition, she addressed the need for environmentally friendly alternatives with practical resources and easy-to-attain banana peels.

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16 year-old (female) Invents Bio-plastic from Banana Peels (Original Post) Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 OP

Cool ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #1

yep. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #2

Brilliant mind there PumpkinAle Jan 2014 #3

yep. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #4

Awesome! K&R TheBlackAdder Jan 2014 #5

yep. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #6

Another nineteen here dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #7

good post! BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2014 #15

I hope her ideas come to fruition WhiteTara Jan 2014 #8

Yeh-- we can't forgot *those* crooks ailsagirl Jan 2014 #9

"fruition" Hah! I get it! ;-) n/t eggplant Jan 2014 #11

These pesky kids! Orrex Jan 2014 #10

fantastic :-) evolution is alive and well - mettamega Jan 2014 #12

:) BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2014 #13

You know a lot of science fiction ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #14

Elif, you keep creating a new reality. Your parents must be so proud. AAO Jan 2014 #16

ismnotwasm

(42,538 posts)

1. Cool

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:25 PM

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Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

2. yep.

Reply to ismnotwasm (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:26 PM

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PumpkinAle

(1,210 posts)

3. Brilliant mind there

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:32 PM

Jan 2014

hope she achieves her dream - she will make an awesome doc.

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

4. yep.

Reply to PumpkinAle (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:33 PM

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TheBlackAdder

(29,191 posts)

5. Awesome! K&R

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:33 PM

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Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

6. yep.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:35 PM

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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

7. Another nineteen here

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:35 PM

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19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented by Women http://mentalfloss.com/article/53164/19-things-you-might-not-know-were-invented-women

And that's aside from 15 Female Scientists Who Changed the World http://www.ekgclasses.org/15-female-scientists-who-changed-the-world/

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

15. good post!

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #7)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 04:04 PM

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WhiteTara

(30,296 posts)

8. I hope her ideas come to fruition

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:36 PM

Jan 2014

and that the chemical companies don't block her way.

ailsagirl

(23,993 posts)

9. Yeh-- we can't forgot *those* crooks

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 03:14 PM

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eggplant

(4,020 posts)

11. "fruition" Hah! I get it! ;-) n/t

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 03:46 PM

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Orrex

(64,621 posts)

10. These pesky kids!

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 03:31 PM

Jan 2014

What a amazing and disciplined mind!

mettamega

(81 posts)

12. fantastic :-) evolution is alive and well -

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 03:50 PM

Jan 2014

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

13. :)

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 04:03 PM

Jan 2014

Awe inspiring!

ismnotwasm

(42,538 posts)

14. You know a lot of science fiction

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 04:04 PM

Jan 2014

Will have a plot that kind of laughs at actually having petroleum based industries. Sci-Fi can be a great future indicator sometimes

AAO

(3,300 posts)

16. Elif, you keep creating a new reality. Your parents must be so proud.

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 07:36 PM

Jan 2014

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