date:Dec 11, 2019
s of organic waste, with only 12% of the plant being used (the fruit) while the rest is discarded after harvest.
What makes the banana growing business particularly wasteful compared to other fruit crops is the fact that the plant dies after each harvest, said Arcot, UNSW School of Chemical Engineering.
We were particularly interested in the pseudostems basically the layered, fleshy trunk of the plant which is cut down after each harvest and mostly discarded on the field. Some of it is used f