With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, scientists at the 244th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia described the development and successful laboratory testing of a new “biorefinery” intended to change food waste into a key ingredient for making plastics, laundry detergents and hundreds of other everyday products. And the world’s most well-known coffee house is involved in the project. Starbucks r...