Egg whites can be turned into material to filter microplastics from seawater, study finds

Paper author and Dr Sehmus Ozden of the Aramco Research Center added: “The egg whites even worked if they were fried on the stove first, or whipped.”

While the team used regular, store-bought egg whites in their initial tests, Dr Ozden explained that other, similar, commercially-available proteins also yielded similar results — meaning that the material could be produced cheaply and at scale without impacting the food supply.

Prof. Arnold added: “Eggs are cool, because we can all connect to them and they are easy to get.”

However, he added, “you want to be careful about competing against the food cycle.”

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1692622/egg-whites-microplastic-filtration-aerogel-seawater-salt