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As an effective utilization of waste stillage which will be banned from dumping into sea in the near future, theauthors have studied and succeeded in making sosei paper pots by using waste stillage from shochu distilleries. And thephysical, mechanical, and chemical properties of a sosei paper pot have so far been clarified.
In this research, in order to investigate whether sosei paper pots can be effectively utilized as one of agriculture materials, thegrowth test of mini tomatoes was carried out using sosei paper pots, waste paper pots (conventional pots), and polyethylene pots.Consequently, after planted in the field, the growth of mini tomatoes in sosei paper division was greater than those in waste paperpots and polyethylene pots. Moreover, in the division with the sosei paper pots, the fertilizer was never found to run out duringthe cultivation. The roots broke through the sosei pot, spread radially in the soil, and the pot did not have any influence on thegrowth of the root. Also, in all divisions, no root was found rotten.
N. B. sosei paper (sosei means reborn)
