Pete Ross
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4,532 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5d ago
Pete Ross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, how would you feel about eating a biscuit or a cookie that started life as a piece of plastic?
Scientists at a NASA funded project in Illinois in the US have used specially designed yeasts to transform plastics and agricultural waste into edible proteins, fats, and flavorings, which they've then turned into a cookie.
James Kumarosami heard more from Mary Roloff's.
A science writer with Forbes magazine.
the sniff test then.
And uh the word vanilla has been mentioned as about the aroma.
What's the idea behind this?
the wider public?
Is that is it something that people have looked at before, this kind of reusing plastic?
Oreo.
Are there plans for for other types of food to be made from uh plastic like this?
But we do have to first get this sort of permission for it to be digestible by by humans, don't we?
I'm not sure I would.
Mary Roloffs, who was speaking to James Kumurasami.
And that's all from us for now.
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