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A type of plastic can be made from Milk. The resulting product is odorless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, antiallergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.

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Here’s a link to super basic instructions:

MAKE PLASTIC MILK - ScienceBob.com

Make your own plastic using milk? Yep, that's right, use some easy chemistry to make your own plastic milk.

ScienceBob.com

This will make a simple casein plastic similar to Play-doh that will harden after a day. It’s basically super cheese.

The buttons in the original image are made from galalith, a more refined and stable form of casein plastic. To get galalith, you need to soak your casein in a solution of 5% formaldehyde in water for a very long time- if you’re making a sheet that’s an inch thick, it needs to soak for a year. At that point you have a lovely hardened plastic that you can’t really mold, but you can carve and dye it, and it has all the cool properties listed above.

@systlin @solarpunkactionweek we could and should be converting the inedible portions of the US surplus cheese stockpile into biodegradable, ethical plastic. The fact that this isn’t already being done is probably a sign of sabotage by Big Oil.

If you treat your simple casein differently, you can make fiber from it: