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VTx — Turning food waste into biodegradable bioplastics

Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech received a $2.4 million grant from the USDA to create bioplastics from food waste diverted from landfills

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Zhiwu "Drew" Wang (at left) and Ph.D. student Xueyao "Kira" Zhang in Wang's lab in the Human and Agricultural Biosciences Building I, where the applied research on bioplastics is conducted. Photo by Max Esterhuizen for Virginia Tech.
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