Archive · 26 Aug 2026
Scientists Create Cookie Using Ingredients Derived From Plastic Bottles
Scientists made a cookie using ingredients that partly started as a plastic bottle.
The project is called µBites.
It explores whether materials from plastic can become part of food.
Scientists have studied bacteria that eat PET, a type of plastic used in bottles.
Other microbes can turn broken-down plastic components into protein-rich material.
The new cookie is another laboratory experiment involving plastic conversion.
It does not mean ordinary plastic bottles can simply be eaten.
The work shows that scientists are testing unusual ways to reuse plastic.
Scientists created a cookie using ingredients that began partly as a plastic bottle.
The project, called µBites, explores converting plastic into food-related materials.
Researchers have previously studied PET-eating bacteria and microbes that process broken-down plastic.
Some microbes can turn components of degraded plastic into protein-rich biomass.
The cookie extends laboratory experiments on plastic-to-food conversion into an unfamiliar form.
- Who
- Scientists working on the µBites project.
- What
- They created a cookie using ingredients that began, at least partly, as a plastic bottle.
- Why
- To explore the laboratory concept of converting plastic into food-related materials.
- Project
- µBites
- Food tested
- A cookie
- Original material
- A plastic bottle
- Plastic referenced
- PET
- Earlier research
- Scientists have studied PET-eating bacteria.
- Microbial conversion
- Some microbes can turn components of broken-down plastic into protein-rich biomass.