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A 16-year-old girl from Istanbul, Turkey spent two years perfecting a plastic created from banana peels, substituting fruit waste for the typical petroleum base. On Thursday, Elif Bilgin's idea paid off when Scientific American named her the winner of its $50,000 Science in Action prize.
A 16-year-old girl from Istanbul, Turkey spent two years perfecting a plastic created from banana peels, substituting fruit waste for the typical petroleum base.
On Thursday, Elif Bilgin's idea paid off when Scientific American named her the winner of its $50,000 Science in Action prize, a stepping stone to the Google Science Fair for young inventors in California this September.
"The method I designed is so simple, it is possible to say that one could actually do it at home," writes Elif on her Google Science Fair page.
(READ the announcement from Scientific American)
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