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Bio-waste yields valuable acetone and isopropanol

Envirotec Magazine

In what appears to be a major stride towards sustainable industrial fermentation, a team of researchers has made advancements in the purification of isopropanol and acetone from the fermentation of waste gases. Isopropanol and acetone have a combined global market of $10 billion.

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Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products

GreenBiz

However, the firm now intends to explore, invest and ramp up carbon capture and use technologies that will eliminate the need for fresh carbon feedstocks and instead allow it to tap recycled carbon already on or above ground, for example, through captured carbon dioxide or carbon captured from waste materials.

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'Carbon rainbow': How Unilever's pledge to eliminate fossil fuels from cleaning products could catalyse the bioeconomy

Business Green

However, the firm now intends to explore, invest, and ramp up carbon capture and utilisation technologies that will eliminate the need for fresh carbon feedstocks and instead allow it to tap recycled carbon already on or above ground, for example through captured carbon dioxide or carbon captured from waste materials. Credit: Unilever.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2022

Greentown Labs

Twenty startups joined our community in the second quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a solution to enhance oceans’ natural ability to capture CO 2 , biotechnologies to produce wood products without cutting down trees, and a turnkey development approach to waste-heat-to-power projects. Manufacturing. Transportation.

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Carbon ‘rainbow’: Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products

AGreenLiving

However, the firm now intends to explore, invest and ramp up carbon capture and use technologies that will eliminate the need for fresh carbon feedstocks and instead allow it to tap recycled carbon already on or above ground, for example, through captured carbon dioxide or carbon captured from waste materials.

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? Green linings & lessons from breakthroughs #159

Climate Tech VC

Geologic hydrogen raises $91M and heating and cooling efficiency draws in $67M. 💧 cimico , a Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain-based biotechnological wastewater treatment platform, raised $8M in Series A funding from Moira Capital Partners. In deals this week, supply chain software scoops up $192M. Thanks for reading!