What This Turkish Girl Did Will Change The Way You Think About Bananas Forever!
Meet 16 years old, turkish, Elif Bilgin from Istanbul Turkey. She is the winner of the ScientificAmerican Science in Action Award and winner of the Voter’s Choice Award for the GoogleScience Fair 2013. Wanting to reduce pollution in her home city of Istanbul, Elif manufactured a new environmentally-friendly bio-plastic that uses banana peels – an organic material – instead of traditional petroleum sources. (more…)
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