Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Scotland has a long history of harvesting wild seaweeds for various uses including animal feed, agricultural fertilisers, and alginates. It would be great to see seaweed species indigenous to Scottish coastal waters being used to power everyday electronics and technology in the future.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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. It’s a waste.” The MEC cycles waste-filled water through the bacteria, which eat up the carbon.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They regularly use excess resources/wastes and byproducts, aiming to reduce use of plastics by replacing them in various products they create. Biohm is working to address several planetary challenges at once: the climate crisis, waste crisis and social injustice. Biohm Images via Biohm.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The paper ‘Physiological and transcriptional response to drought stress among bioenergy grass Miscanthus species’ is published in Biotechnology for Biofuels. Miscanthus is a promising biofuel thanks to its high biomass yield and low input requirements, which means it can adapt to a wide range of climate zones and land types.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The why: The nearly 16,000 desalination plants around the world create enough waste to cover Florida with a foot of brine each year. Edacious bridges the gap between agriculture and human health by enabling the food system to accurately measure, report and verify the nutritional content of whole foods.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

JUNE 15, 2022

E8, an impact investor community specializing in climate tech and cleantech, invites applications from early-stage companies to its 2022 Decarbon8-US funding round focused on technological solutions that advance regenerative agriculture and reduce its environmental impacts. Ag and ecosystem biotechnology (e.g. Evaluation Criteria.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2020

Did you know that 128 million tons of milk are wasted every year? LA-based startup Mi Terro is using biotechnology to turn a portion of that food waste into sustainable fibers for biodegradable T-shirts. Mi Terro Images via Mi Terro.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2021

Rather than ending up as useless waste in the landfill, these plantable cards degrade in soil and grow into herbs and flowering plants, making this a big win for bees and other pollinators. If necessary, however, then the GreenTech Painting team finds a sustainable, and often unique, solution for their paper use.

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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. million metric tons, according to a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Farmers as a group don't typically embrace change. A silent killer on a massive scale.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

An excellent in-depth Economist article on synthetic biology from 2019 quotes market sizes from Bioeconomy Capital, which estimates the industrial biotech market at a much larger $147B, and at $338B for all of synbio inclusive of food & agriculture ($104B) and biopharmaceuticals ($137B). invested in 2018 according to SynBioBeta.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

But whilst the government has invested significantly in other solutions to tackling carbon emissions from food - for example food waste and agriculture - it has yet to do so in this sector. There is also more to this industry than the climate and potential health benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. The 6 types of retail packaging waste. That is, 17.6

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 12, 2019

CEOs and leaders of 19 portfolio companies spoke about the ir vision to move markets in energy, water, agriculture, mobility, and the circular economy and outlined the opportunities that will come from looking around corners to solve them. BioCellection | Upcycling hard-to-recycle plastic waste | watch. CIRCULAR ECONOMY.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

💧 cimico , a Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain-based biotechnological wastewater treatment platform, raised $8M in Series A funding from Moira Capital Partners. ⚡ AquaGreen , a Roskilde, Denmark-based pyrolysis technology for waste conversion developer, raised $4M in Seed funding from Nordic Alpha Partners and FMG Circular Invest.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Ballen, who recently took on her new role at Indigo Ag, says her time working in the food and beverage sector shed light on "just how important agriculture is to a sustainable future and the climate change battle.". — At age 25, Mateo Dugand had a big job, running waste management for the United Arab Emirates. Meg Wilcox. LinkedIn .

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