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Cheese-Making Leftovers to Make Vehicle Fuel and Bioplastics?

2025-08-04 13:55:00| Waste Age

Whey, a byproduct of cheesemaking, has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar cash cow for the dairy industry, which turns protein in this waste stream into products from butter to nutrient-packed powders. But the protein extraction process leaves behind heaps of lactose. So now innovators are figuring out how to valorize these manufacturing leftovers, too.


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