[Music] my name is adif i'm 16 years old and i live in istanbul turkey my favorite place to spend time is watching the view of the bosphorus it's the point where europe meets asia and is beautiful istanbul is a city that never sleeps because i live in a big city i face environmental problems like pollution on a daily basis i found out that petroleum-based plastics are causing a vast amount of pollution and that bioplastic is a solution it is cheaper to make and recycles a waste material bioplastics can be made from potatoes because of the
starch in them so the aim of my project was to see if i could make plastic other organic waste material bananas contain a lot of starch and are there for a potential plastic material i researched the current methods for creating bioplastics and i worked for two years developing my project i had to seek out equal sized bananas with no bruises and they all had to be of the same official color index i did encounter some strange looks while i was picking them the peel is something we throw away every day but little do we know
that it could be put to much more use the process includes dipping the peel in sodium metabisulfite solution before boiling and pureeing them the paste is transferred into a petri dish and baked i had 12 attempts at making the plastic and all about the last two were unsuccessful the best part of the process was the moment when i got my first successful result the type of plastic i've created can have many uses including cosmetic prosthetics and the insulation of cables the method i designed is so simple it's possible to say that you can actually make
it at home anyone could use this plastic and our beautiful planet will be spared from the consequences of the production of plastics with petroleum derivatives i can now say that i've perfected my recipe for banana cupcakes and i make an awesome banana split and of course i've ended up eating a ton of bananas [Music] you
