Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

Circular economy The advantages of moving from a wasteful ‘linear’ economy to a ‘circular’ economy, where all resources are recycled and reused, are obvious. Most of these strains had never been assessed for their biotechnological potential before. So could we recycle REEs more efficiently, too?

Biotechnology 246

Biotechnology Recycling Recycling Demand 246

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: The nearly 16,000 desalination plants around the world create enough waste to cover Florida with a foot of brine each year.

Soil 111

Soil Recycling Recycling Carbon 111

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

With very little known about its productivity in flooded and moisture-saturated soil conditions, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich wanted to understand the differences in water-stress tolerance among Miscanthus species to guide genomics-assisted crop breeding.

Biotechnology 130

Biotechnology Resilience Agriculture Soil 130

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2021

Rather than ending up as useless waste in the landfill, these plantable cards degrade in soil and grow into herbs and flowering plants, making this a big win for bees and other pollinators. If necessary, however, then the GreenTech Painting team finds a sustainable, and often unique, solution for their paper use.

Health 97

Health Biotechnology Sustainability Biodegradable 97

E8 Cleantech Angels

JUNE 15, 2022

Critical issues also include regenerative inputs, carbon emissions, productivity, water quality and scarcity, soil health, crop diversity, labour supply and food supply. Ag and ecosystem biotechnology (e.g. food safety, waste reduction, traceability and processing). Business and farm data management tools (e.g.

Agriculture 40

Agriculture Investment Biotechnology North America 40

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. In Europe, coastal communities from the Iberian Peninsula to the northern British Isles used seaweed to enrich infertile agricultural soils at least as far back as Roman times, researchers have found.

Pollution 48

Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 48