It's always good to produce something where there is no waste left behind and the cotton industry here is just 1 taking that step.

Cotton byproduct turned into cattle feed and cooking oil in bid to have zero waste.

Move over grassfed and grainfed cattle. A new factory upcycling waste from one of Australia's major crops could lead to more "cottonfed" beef, and a byproduct from the process could find its way into your fish and chips.

Seed that is not used to plant cotton has long been converted to cattle feed, particularly during droughts, but the nutritional quality can vary depending on how much it is processed.

A new, $20 million cottonseed "meat" factory in southern Queensland has developed high-protein feed pellets that have similar fat and energy levels to traditional grain through a "zero waste" process that also makes cooking oil.

It means more producers can access a cheaper feed product without losing quality, potentially putting more "cottonfed" beef on consumer plates, while also solving a waste issue for both the feed and cotton industry.

Fifty million tonnes of cottonseed is produced worldwide each year, but only 1 per cent is planted to grow cotton, creating an opportunity to value add.

To feed cottonseed to animals it has to dehulled — split into its component parts — creating a meal, also referred to as a "meat", that animals can eat and a byproduct, the extracted oil, which is often discarded.

The plant at Mort & Co's Grassdale Feedlot on the Darling Downs will come online in the next two months, producing an oil that can be refined and used in cooking....

And if that can be mixed with some of this.

Aquaculture company Clean Seas announces seaweed trial in bid to reduce emissions.

We'll really be onto a winner.

EMPTY WASTE Basket is GOoD, REAL GOoD.

Looking Forward to Next Trash Day.

SUPERWaste

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Finally.

Australian Scientists discover mind-blowing process to recycle old solar panels: ‘Until now it made economic sense to just dump [them]’.

According to Anthropocene Magazine, Australian researcher Binesh Puthen Veettil recently announced that he and his team have found a way to make solar panel recycling cheaper and easier: throwing it in a microwave.

In the past, solar panels have been difficult to recycle, Anthropocene Magazine explained. They contain valuable materials that could be used to make new panels, but those materials are difficult to separate.

For example, the glass of the panels has a plastic coating fused to its surface to protect it, and that coating is very hard to remove. Meanwhile, the silicon in the panels needs to be heated to over 1650 degrees Fahrenheit during manufacturing.

Anthropocene Magazine reported that most solar panels are currently thrown out instead of being recycled.

But Veettil’s new method could change that and improve panel manufacturing. Veettil and his team used an ordinary kitchen microwave with added heat-proofing to protect it from the high temperatures needed to process solar panels.

They then used the microwave to selectively heat the panel’s silicon components while leaving the glass, plastic, and aluminum intact. The method was successful and much more energy-efficient than using a traditional furnace to do the same.

Not only that, but the process also softened the plastic coating on the panel’s glass. This allowed the plastic to be removed easily so the team could salvage the glass, too......

Now what could be better?

From waste to wrap, company transforming potato scraps into eco-friendly cling wrap.

In a massive warehouse in Melbourne's west, a gleaming new machine hums and purrs around the clock, extruding large rolls of clear plastic wrap.

It is not the petroleum-based product so ubiquitous in everyday life — from wrapping factory goods on pallets to keeping food fresh in the fridge.

This wrap is made from potato starch and polymers, a high-tech process that utilises potato waste from food products such as french fries and potato chips.

"Usually, it goes to cattle feed or it's spread out on farmland," said Great Wrap co-founder Jordy Kay said.

The company and its products are the early, green shoots of an emerging global industry — the quest to replace petroleum-based plastic products with equivalents made from plant-based materials that are just as functional.

But they must be sustainable, recyclable and, at the end of their life, fully compostable......