"RichD" > wrote in message
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> I'm at Whole Foods the other day, they have this array
> of recycle bins, sheesh, you need a PhD to toss your garbage.
>
> Anyway, I throw the plastic utensils into the trash, one
> of the staff says, "That's biodegradable, toss it in the
> compost bin." Polywhatever can be fertilizer? It seems
> the 'plastic' is made from potatos.
>
> ok chemists, how do you turn potatos into a moldable material?

From potato starch.
Google "compostable cutlery".