Sunday, June 08, 2008

theres gold in them potatoes




recycling and using products that might otherwise be thrown away and repurposing them makes sense.

maine potato bioplastics story

http://www.umaine.edu/mcsc/reports/potatoesExecSum.pdf


apparently maine has a very stringent potato grading apparatus in the "maine potato board" (ask essej fish and his grand dad about this). Anywho, we have literally hundreds of tons of potatoes that aren't qualified to be put into a bag that says "Maine Potatoes". The chaff gets sent to the dehydrated potato flake factory or many times simply composted with next years crop. Here is another use for all of those that fell by the wayside.

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