Researchers aim to make biodegradable plastic from dairy waste

The director of the Center for Dairy Research says he’s confident new chemicals and compounds made from dairy byproducts will be on the market soon.

Dr. John Lucey says, “We are really pushing this here at the CDR as the next thing to look out for.”

Lucey says the University of Wisconsin campus also has the Great Lakes Bio-energy Center, where they work on making biofuels from switchgrass and wood waste.  He says that team of microbiologists engineers bugs that can help make different products.

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