This Engineer Wants to Turn Your Abandoned Christmas Tree Into Sustainable Household Products
by Yessenia Funes on Earther, shared by Virginia K. S from Lifehacker on (#45WAA)
Chemical engineer Cynthia Kartey is all about turning biomass-from leftover crop stalks to fallen trees-into something valuable. So Christmas sparked a lightbulb moment for Kartey, a Ph.D. student in the University of Sheffield, when she began to wonder what happens to peoples' trees after the holiday season.