A fermentation byproduct might help to solve two major global challenges: world #hunger and the #environmental impact of fast fashion.
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A fermentation byproduct might help to solve two major global challenges: world #hunger and the #environmental impact of fast fashion. The leftover yeast from brewing beer, wine or even to make some #pharmaceuticals can be #repurposed to produce high-performance fibers stronger than natural fibers
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Interesting; in Colorado we've used that waste product as food for bacteria in our #sewage treatment plants. Bacterial colonies fluctuate hourly and the less poop, the less bacteria. When people wake up at 6 for work a huge wave of #poop gets flushed into the treatment plant and it pushes pathogenic bacteria further into the system than they like. If they inject waste from the brewery into the upstream bacterial pool before the (predictable) poop-wave arrives then the colony grows large enough to handle the influx and the pathogenic bacteria get chomped up early.
Sewage treatment is pretty neat!
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