Letter from the Editor

From the Editor

Any time you can make something out of waste material it’s a good thing. The first two press releases illustrate certainly illustrate that. Chindam Chandraprakash and colleagues used seaweed to develop a plant-derived, biodegradable material that would be simple to manufacture and that could absorb a range of sounds…a great improvement over plastic acoustic panels. Banana peels are now making their way onto people’s plates, replacing pork in “pulled peel” sandwiches and getting fried up into “bacon.” And now, researchers reporting in ACS Food Science & Technology show that incorporating banana peel flour into sugar cookie batter makes the treats more healthful. In taste tests, cookies enriched with some banana peel flour were more satisfying than those baked with wheat flour alone. Congratulations to Eric Simanek and Martha Gilchrist, winners of the Doherty and Chem Ambassador awards.