This Engineer Wants to Turn Your Abandoned Christmas Tree Into Sustainable Household Products

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.

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Author: Yessenia Funes on Earther, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker