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An offer of ‘kelp’: Recycling marine waste from inactive oil platforms

Envirotec Magazine

Environmentally responsible decommissioning company, CessCon Decom, has teamed up with researchers at Abertay University to explore how marine growth – a waste by-product of the decommissioning process – can be recycled and reused. At the end of a platform’s lifecycle, various types of marine species are found on the underwater jacket.

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Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions

Envirotec Magazine

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. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials. Imperial College, UK and TCKT, Germany).

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4% of total GHG emissions, about as much as the entire aviation sector.

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

AGreenLiving

. “Recent events have emphasized how our economies and systems are flawed and unsustainable, and that we need to immediately implement radical and regenerative biotechnologies delivered through equitable and compassionate business models to make leaps in the fight against the climate crisis.” Biohm Images via Biohm.

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GreenTech Painting: Eco-Painting Services for the Home, Business and More

Green Business Bureau

For instance, their business cards are made from recycled and biodegradable seed paper. If necessary, however, then the GreenTech Painting team finds a sustainable, and often unique, solution for their paper use. GreenTech Painting founders, Juan Carlos Granados and Yarinka Rojas, both have extensive backgrounds in the Biological Sciences.

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Biorefinery handles recycle-resistant plant waste

Envirotec Magazine

A long-standing grail of biotechnology is the effort to convert the lignin component of plant-based biomass into energy or something useful – this being a less wasteful avenue than simply burning it or throwing it away. The beauty of the MEC is that it can process any type of organic waste — human, agricultural or industrial.

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Top brands strengthen links between net zero goals and supply chain innovation

Business Green

The company set aside $1.2bn in research and development funds for biotechnology and low-carbon chemistry technologies that support that goal. That could mean creating closed-loop systems that increase the amount of recycled materials - a strategy increasingly embraced by electronics companies including Dell Technologies and HP Inc.