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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.

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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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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. It helped define fast fashion, yet is in the vanguard of circular innovations in apparel. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E; San Francisco.

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Bio-recycling gets fashionable with enzymes that will eat your shoes

Business Green

French biotech start-up Carbios is making rapid progress working with some of the world's biggest fashion brands to deliver a new approach to polyester recycling. This is the future a biotech startup called Carbios and a group of well-known sportswear brands are working toward. Which, incidentally, is a lot of stuff.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. It helped define fast fashion, yet is in the vanguard of circular innovations in apparel.