Turning Peels Into Pavers: How Penn Designers Turn Food Scraps Into Biodegradable Building Materials
April 01, 2026
April 01, 2026
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 1 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news:
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Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials
The Weitzman School's Laia Mogas-Soldevila and Yasaman Amirzehni transform unavoidable food waste--like fruit peels and eggshells, which account for 14.8% of post-consumer restaurant food waste--into durable, biodegradable building materials in collabo . . .
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Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials
The Weitzman School's Laia Mogas-Soldevila and Yasaman Amirzehni transform unavoidable food waste--like fruit peels and eggshells, which account for 14.8% of post-consumer restaurant food waste--into durable, biodegradable building materials in collabo . . .