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Courtesy of Crave: Denmark-based Agroplast wants to transform pig urine into plastic dinnerware and household items. The company has essentially devised a way to better commercialize urea, a compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, found in urine. Transforming farm waste into plastic precursors is potentially attractive over other bioplastic ideas because pig urine effectively has no value. In fact, it has negative value because animal waste must be disposed, which costs money. Evaluation of the pricing will have to wait until large volumes of this stuff are made. Agroplast is going into a pilot study now.

If your first reaction to that paragraph was mild disgust, take a look inside your medicine cabinet. The Eucerin that I use to calm my cracked writer’s hands lists urea as its second ingredient. Still, plastics made from pig urine would be something new. Someone should tell Charles Stephan and Simon Kang!