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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 1, 2021
A filtration system fuelled by whisky co-products is being developed by researchers to sustainably extract rare and valuable metals – including gold, silver, and palladium – from waste electronics using a new combined biological and chemical approach. 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.
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.
AFN Sustainable Protein
AUGUST 12, 2019
Demand for meat is growing faster in Asia, especially China, than anywhere else on the planet — and satiating the continent’s demand has global implications,” the Impossible Foods spokesperson told us. There is also, of course, a wealth of potential for biotechnologies to not just treat viruses like ASF but also prevent them. .
GreenBiz
JUNE 22, 2020
We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.
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. Asia dominates the market with 97.4 They just need a way to sustain themselves," said co-founder and CEO Andrés Bisonó León, a Dominican Republic native.
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