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Can We Do Both?

Posted October 30, 2009 7:25 AM

The Badana Project intends to use banana crop waste to create plastic. Other industries are using corn or other cash crops to create plastic. Will this will strain food supplies? Or will there be enough to satisfy both industries?

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Re: Can We Do Both?

10/31/2009 8:51 AM

The main theme is finding raw material source [organic base] from renewable nature.

*Banana fibre waste is extracted from unused stems that absolutely have no bearing with banana fruits. The inner banana stem is a useful vegetable substitute in INDIA[a natural cure to kidney stones], can be very well sharable for industrial and foodstuff consumption.

* Coming to the corn part also, the stem part is supposed to be exploited, the pity is it is major cattle feed and a concern for possible food shortage [cellulose] for cattle.

Here again renewable or improved crops production should not affect dual requirement of raw material and cattle feed requirement.

So , the possibilty is WE CAN DO BOTH.

FUTURE MATERIALS RELY ON RENEWABLE VEGETATION SOURCE AND NOT ON FOSSIL DEPOSITES[of course fossil ed vegetation long long ago, again is the real source for ever]
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