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

Envirotec Magazine

Nick Thompson, Managing Director of Fiberight Limited: “Securing this important EU funding enables us to take our promising pilot-scale work over the last five years to the next stage and demonstrate its commercial viability as an economically and environmentally sustainable process.”.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

UK biotech company Toraphene says it is preparing to unveil the world’s first truly biodegradable, compostable and commercially viable alternative to plastic packaging.

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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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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. So of course they protect these innovations through patents and intellectual property rights.

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

AFN Sustainable Protein

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. Our model was to have a team in contracted IP. Our current R&D team and all of our scientists are South African. AFN: Which markets are you targeting?

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

DeSmogBlog

In order to reach EU Farm to Fork objectives, we believe it is essential that EU Regulations foster further all innovative solutions, be it biopesticides or pesticides, plant biotech including NGTs or digital and precision agriculture tools so that farmers have access to a full toolbox of effective solutions towards more sustainable farming.”.

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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