How Potato Scraps Can Help Win the War on Plastic

U.S. Government Printing Office employee wraps plastic around a pallet of newly printed copies of the U.S. President George W. Bush Administration's budget for the 2008 fiscal year, February 1, 2007 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Australia uses around 250,000 tonnes of pallet wrap each year, a product mainly made with chemicals sourced from fossil fuels.

But one husband-and-wife team wants to change that with a process starting at the farm gate.