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Swiss firm reveals first ever shoe made from carbon emissions

Envirotec Magazine

The CO is captured initially using technology from Italian biotech firm Lanzatech – a proprietary fermentation process that depends upon “selected and naturally occurring bacteria”, which converts the carbon-rich gas to ethanol. The application of our Hummingbird™ technology to produce bio-ethylene is one step to a more sustainable future.

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Swiss sports brand creates shoe from captured carbon

Business Green

Using a combination of cutting-edge genetic engineering, state-of-the-art biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and innovations in mechanical and chemical engineering the companies to manufacture chemicals using a process that soaks up waste carbon, rather than emitting it.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

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Are you making the switch to alternative greener solutions and technologies ? To exemplify the progression in this industry, Norway Tomra Systems has developed a technology called laser object detection. This proprietary coating stems from technological developments by the Canadian nanotechnology company CelluTech.

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Kevin de León, architect of some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies, spoke about how such policies can lay the market foundations to democratize the benefits of clean technologies for all people in every community. Microvi | Biotechnologies for safe drinking water, wastewater treatment, and renewable chemicals | watch.