Fish Waste to Create a Unique Alternative to Plastic
Fish Waste to Create a Unique Alternative to Plastic
News Type: Regional, Federal Source: The Water NetworkClick here to read the article: https://waterguardianexperts.thewaternetwork.com/member-post-FfV/fish-waste-to-create-a-unique-alternative-to-plastic-6CiDhoH_4JtcYNAlFAGVhg
The 24-year-old student from Twickenham who attends the University of Sussex is the winner of the 15th annual international James Dyson Award. Her invention—a unique plastic alternative called MarinaTex—solves two problems: the ubiquity of single-use plastic (which is often inappropriately used) and massive fish waste from the fish processing industry.
Hughes studied product design and developed MarinaTex as her final-year project. Through extensive research, she found that fish skins and scales were the most promising materials to form the basis of a bioplastic, because they contain strong and flexible protein structures.