Would you eat food made from plastic?

Abbey
Food Science Fusion
6 min readNov 18, 2022

How scientists are transforming plastic waste into food-safe ingredients

I don’t think I need to explain to you that we have a plastic problem.

But, if you’re a numbers person, every year we produce 359 million tons of plastic with 150–200 million of those tons ending up in landfills. That’s over 40%.

Abbey
Food Science Fusion

I’m a food scientist by PhD, a science writer, and a YouTuber. I’m fascinated by food science and enjoy writing and sharing what I’ve learn.