Faced with a bucket full of potatoes, cashew shells, hemp, rapeseed oil, wheat, and sugar beet, most of us would try and find some pigs to feed.
If your name were Ben Wood, however, you'd add £20,000 and make a car called the Eco One Speedster.
Designed by a researcher at Warwick University's Manufacturing Group, the car took Wood two months to build. The tyres are partly made with potato starch, which creates less friction on the road while the brake pads are made from cashew shells blended into a resin, which means brake dust doesn't hurt the environment.
The body is fashioned from hemp and rapeseed oil and it's powered by a Triumph Daytona engine, which was not made from fruits or vegetables, but steel. Yet that engine runs on fermented wheat and sugar beet, and still gets to 60 in under four seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph. The car is 95% biodegradable or recyclable, that last 5% comprising things like its steering wheel, seat and electrics. And the point is to race the car and convert many of its applications to motorsport.so go and have a look at the National Science Museum in London from August 28-30.
Bring a packed lunch – you may feel hungry looking at this.