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Project secures EU funding to create sugars, chemicals and plastics from household waste

Envirotec Magazine

The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

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'World first': Top brands produce plastic bottles using enzyme recycling process

Business Green

But Carbios claims its patented process enables a wide variety of used plastics to be recycled back into food-grade PET that might otherwise go to landfill or incineration, potentially providing a continuous, circular system of recycling.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

We remain committed to delivering innovative solutions that address pressing agriculture challenges for farmers, growers and society.”. In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.” said Cingotti.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

Scientific analyses that have been done on the impacts of many biotech crops have identified many benefits , including reducing the use of pesticides and improving the welfare and health of subsistence farmers. Yes, these companies do invest huge amounts of capital and time developing innovations such as gene-edited crops.

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Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

AFN Sustainable Protein

We are also engaged globally, which means we understand the innovation, collaboration and co-creation. They have run and owned some parts of the value chain and have biotech companies that have patents in different parts of the world that have been majorly funded. We already have cultivated protein companies.

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Meet the founder: Arkeon CEO Gregor Tegel on creating food ingredients out of air

AFN Sustainable Protein

million) investment in Arkeon from global Israeli specialty minerals company ICL Group , AFN spoke to Gregor Tegel (GT) about Arkeon’s uniqueness in successfully combining ingredients with amino acids as well as its intentions of applying its one-step patented process beyond the food industry. Following the recent $2.9 million (€2.75