Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. Building manufacturing capabilities in Europe will reduce the carbon footprint of shipping materials from cheaper producers, such as Asia,” adds Nick.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

According to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report, in 2019 the UK produced the second highest level of electrical waste per capita at 23.9 Most of this waste is transported to Asia for processing, which also contributes to the environmental impact of electronic waste. kilograms – a total 1.6 million tonnes of waste electronics.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Before turning to genetic engineering, the foundation tried unsuccessfully to breed a hybrid chestnut that looked and grew like an American chestnut but had genes from species native to Asia that gave it blight resistance.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. While there have been more than 7,300 dengue cases reported in the United States between 2010 and 2020, a majority are contracted in Asia and the Caribbean, according to the U.S.

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Biotechnology Technology Health Biotech 112

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Rabobank also predicts that China’s pig herd could halve by the end of 2019. The APL predicted China’s demand for protein would be filled by the EU and Brazil and Rabobank is more positive about Brazil, calling 2019 a ‘promising’ year for the South American nation’s pork industry. Pork production is down 5.5%

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. Between 1969 and 2019, global seaweed production increased to 35.8 Asia dominates the market with 97.4 Farmers as a group don't typically embrace change. million metric tons from 2.2

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 46

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

When Alyssa Harding was tapped in early 2019 to serve as executive director at nonprofit Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA) she was working as the sustainability and external relations manager at Justin’s, a food company in Boulder, Colorado, that makes nut butters. Coffee can’t do that experience justice.". Elsa Wenzel. LinkedIn .

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