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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. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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Plastic Pollution Awareness • 7/15/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Join WCS and Votes for the Planet to discuss the impact of plastic pollution and create your own Plastic Pollution Plan! Plastics are present in virtually every aspect of our lives: at the grocery store, restaurants, online shopping, packaging, and the list goes on. But have you wondered how best to fight plastic pollution?

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EcoFABs could lead to better bioenergy crops, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

In a new paper in Science Advances , they show how these takeout box–sized, plastic growth chambers could potentially provide scientists with a standardized and reproducible platform for conducting experiments on model plants and the microbes that live around their roots. “At

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India’s first insect farming startup Loopworm secures $3.4m seed round led by Omnivore, WaterBridge

AFN Sustainable Protein

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 The company sources this food waste — which it likes to call “organic byproduct”– from food processors, retail food chains, and fruit markets. million in seed funding co-led by Indian agrifood VC Omnivore and WaterBridge Ventures.

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

AGreenLiving

Biohm, a London biotech and biomanufacturing startup, has created a line of sustainable lampshades called Obscure that are made of 100% coffee chaff and orange peel. They regularly use excess resources/wastes and byproducts, aiming to reduce use of plastics by replacing them in various products they create.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. My Green Lab's 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. Projects and progress. My Green Lab also runs the ACT "eco-nutrition" label for lab equipment.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

AGreenLiving

Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. Projects and progress My Green Lab’s 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. ACT stands for Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency).