Science
Pig Urine Plasticware Could Add Some Flavour To Your Meals, Cigarettes
Posted by Sean Fallon at 8:00 AM on April 23, 2008
Denmark has a disgusting problem. The waste produced by the country's 20 million pigs is slowly choking the environment—which has prompted a local company named Agroplast to devise a unique solution. Specifically, they have developed a means of processing animal waste (pig urine most notably) and transforming it into plastics that could be used in just about everything—including plastic dinnerware.
In fact, the folks at Agroplast claim that their chemicals can be utilised in other products like fertilisers, lotions, and as "a flavour enhancer in cigarettes." Sorry, but I'm going to pass on a ticket to that flavour country. [Agroplast via CNET]
Tags: ecofriendly | flavour | green | pigs | plastics | recycling | science

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PeterPotamus
Posted 8:55 AM 23/4/08
The only thing left if to pack each plate in a ridiculously large box before shipping.
I wonder if they could make packing peanuts out of pig piss...
PeterPotamus
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 8:53 AM 23/4/08
@Nintenboy01: You don't have to kill the whales to get it, but yes, they do.
(And no, I don't really wear it.)
92BuickLeSabre
ParJoe
Posted 8:48 AM 23/4/08
Eh...there's some expensive fine wines that share the sent molecule that makes cat piss smell.
ParJoe
jackrabbix
Posted 8:41 AM 23/4/08
You mean these guys?
[gizmodo.com]
jackrabbix
jackrabbix
Posted 8:41 AM 23/4/08
You mean these guys?
[gizmodo.com]
jackrabbix
thechansen
Posted 8:31 AM 23/4/08
They should make cigarettes taste like pig piss. that might set me on the road to quitting. Then again...
thechansen
Nintenboy01
Posted 8:29 AM 23/4/08
@92BuickLeSabre: Huh? They still kill whales to make cologne?!?
Nintenboy01
se7a7n7
Posted 8:25 AM 23/4/08
Everything I needed to know about environmentalism, I learned from "Mad Max beyond Thunderdome"
se7a7n7
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 8:16 AM 23/4/08
My cigarettes already include Urea and Ammonia.
My cologne contains ambergris.
And forget hot dogs my fancy dinner of tripe, rocky mountain oysters, foie gras, scrapple and chitterlings?
Moral of the story? If it works, bring it on!
92BuickLeSabre
ittekimasu
Posted 8:15 AM 23/4/08
Mmmm Nothing like that smooth taste of pig piss
ittekimasu
johnnyabnormal
Posted 8:13 AM 23/4/08
plastica=lak uf spel czech
johnnyabnormal
johnnyabnormal
Posted 8:12 AM 23/4/08
Hmmm... We have a different problem in the USA. Our plastica are making us into pigs:
[www.informationliberation.com]
johnnyabnormal
--Tito--
Posted 8:06 AM 23/4/08
Fuck piss in plates. . . . .
--Tito--
MagnoliaBoy
Posted 9:07 AM 23/4/08
@MagnoliaBoy: P.S. Please don't correct my spelling. I know I suck at spelling, I suck at most things. I'm tired and high and don't care if it offends your English major.
MagnoliaBoy
MagnoliaBoy
Posted 9:04 AM 23/4/08
@Nintenboy01: Ambergris is Wale Vomit (Discovery Channel), though I imagine if you gut one it'll be full 'o sweet sweet ambergris. The real question is, how can someone called 92BuickLeSabre: actually afford something that, once per once, is more valuable than gold. Must be all the money he saved by switching to Geico.
MagnoliaBoy
Darkest Daze
Posted 10:44 AM 23/4/08
@MagnoliaBoy:
Hey, I learned the same thing from Futurama! Rosanne to be exact.
Darkest Daze
GadgetPlay
Posted 10:24 AM 23/4/08
@001: I wouldn't think the Jews would be very happy either.
GadgetPlay
josecardozo
Posted 10:10 AM 23/4/08
whats the big deal here? does petroleum taste any better than pig piss?
josecardozo
001
Posted 10:04 AM 23/4/08
this fascination with pigs, no wonder denmark kept pissing muslims off.
001
zimzombie
Posted 9:51 AM 23/4/08
They also have one of the worst photoshopped-together frontpage welcome images ever. Hmm... we have a bunch of images... we have a bunch of text.... well, we'd better rotate some of that text. Just, y'know, because.
zimzombie
Pope John Peeps II
Posted 11:13 AM 23/4/08
20 million? What is that, 1 pig per person in Denmark?
Man, they eat pretty well.
Pope John Peeps II
mferrari
Posted 12:26 PM 23/4/08
@josecardozo: Wow, I didn't even think of that. And, I suppose a disgusting thing that is available almost everywhere is better than a disgusting thing that is made in countries that wanna 'splode us.
mferrari
FiveLiters
Posted 1:39 PM 23/4/08
...and in other (gross) Denmark news, scientists have developed a bite-size snack made from monkey poo to be marketed under the brand name "Rhesus Feces". Stay tuned...
FiveLiters
Moonshadow101
Posted 1:28 PM 23/4/08
Cigarettes already contain urea.
Moonshadow101
bombastinator
Posted 2:12 PM 23/4/08
But can they do it even remotely efficiently.
They have a solution for making pig feces into firewood too, and have for a long time. The problem with these things is generally removing the water. Removing the water from the poo made those fine logs cost several bucks a piece.
bombastinator
ZX3Junglist
Posted 2:25 PM 23/4/08
@FiveLiters: I LOL'ed
ZX3Junglist
packetsniffer
Posted 10:17 PM 23/4/08
"The waste produced by the country's 20 million pigs is slowly choking the environment"
Oh give me a break. Now nature is harming itself? We're doomed for sure.
packetsniffer
Geisrud
Posted 11:13 PM 23/4/08
First thought that came to mind when I watched this is the scene in Rambo where they have him tied up in a pit slowly filling up and drowning him with pig piss and sh@t.
Geisrud
Slartibartfast
Posted 12:25 AM 24/4/08
'Oink' means 'NO'
Slartibartfast
ANoel
Posted 12:59 AM 24/4/08
A little coffee just came out my nose as I imagined the Danish landscape pocked with 20 million swine hooked up with catheters running to strapped-on piss udders.
Oh, to be a pig farmer...
ANoel
shawn_dude
Posted 3:12 AM 24/4/08
@packetsniffer: ""The waste produced by the country's 20 million pigs is slowly choking the environment"
Oh give me a break. Now nature is harming itself? We're doomed for sure."
There's nothing natural about 20 million pigs in that small of an area. Nor is there anything particularly natural about the way we raise beef or chicken these days. Just because pig piss is a "natural" substance, doesn't mean 20 million gallons of urea in a small area isn't going to mess things up.
Anyone that's driven through Norco on I-15, South of Los Angeles, knows what I mean. Your eyes burn from it.
Think of it as a larger version of your dog creating brown spots on your lawn.
shawn_dude
packetsniffer
Posted 4:20 AM 24/4/08
@shawn_dude:
There is no evidence in either linked article to support Giz's editorialization of the story.
"'There are 20 million pigs in Denmark, and what they do environmentally is a problem,' he said."
That's quite different from:
"slowly choking the environment"
packetsniffer
maven2k
Posted 4:00 AM 24/4/08
Let's take something that is hurting the environment and make other poisonous things out of it.
maven2k
ybseigel
Posted 5:17 AM 24/4/08
The original plan - storing the pig waste in silos, IIRC - was abandoned after a controversial american documentary (presumably) detailed the resulting ecological disaster to a certain small town in an anonymous state.
ybseigel
ybseigel
Posted 3:49 AM 24/4/08
IIRC, the original plan was to store all pig waste in a giant silo; until an american documentary (presumably) surfaced, detailing the possible environmental consequences to small towns.
ybseigel
doughboy921
Posted 5:23 PM 23/4/08
piss flavored cigarettes. whats next? piss flavored piss?
doughboy921
Guy-Fawkes
Posted 2:47 AM 24/4/08
How would you be able to tell the difference between regular cigarettes and pig-pee cigarettes? It's a well-established fact that smoking deadens the taste buds.
Guy-Fawkes