Cow poo grocery bags...

I get so excited about the future of biotechnology I can't sleep at night sometimes.

A company in Australia has discovered that by processing the organisms found in manure sludge, they can create biodegradable plastics. That's right - biodegradable plastic shopping bags which originally started out as cow poo.
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This is the cool part - "The way we would like to see it is that farmer don't just produce one product and a lot of waste," Dr Garman said.

"They have started producing many products so that they become mini chemical factories."
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This is going to happen all over the globe. More and more, farmers are going to be creating small chemical products, and not just 'food.' And more and more, the activist and media pressure traditionally applied to chemical firms will apply to the family farm.