KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
When next you are eating a spud,
Think! Its flowers, stalks and leaves were just crud.
But research has found
that this garbage abounds
with fibres for fashion – that’s good!
Article in The New Scientist 7th September 2024 reports on the findings by a team at Imperial College London that the fibres from the above-the-ground waste from potatos (estimated to be 150million tonnes a year) can be used as a cotton fibre substitute,with the potential of saving huge crop space and diminishing water usage.
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