Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A team of researchers in Scotland is supporting a clean tech startup to transform low-value co-products from the forestry sector into eco-friendly alternatives to chemicals found in everyday items.

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Startups Biotechnology Logging Patents 147

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Veolia has partnered with UK biotechnology startup, FabricNano, to apply enzymes to rocks to trial faster, permanent carbon dioxide removal directly from the atmosphere. This innovation, combining world leading biotechnology and established carbon removal practices, represents a huge step forward in ecological solutions.

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Biotechnology Agriculture Carbon Patents 147

AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2020

LA-based startup Mi Terro is using biotechnology to turn a portion of that food waste into sustainable fibers for biodegradable T-shirts. Its innovative, patent-pending process can also be used to make other eco-friendly products and offer a sustainable substitute for plastic. The company doesn’t want to stop there.

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Biodegradable Startups Biotechnology Waste 36

Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Carbios is among a contingent of startups that are attempting to commercialize a type of chemical recycling known as depolymerization, which breaks down polymers — the chain-like molecules that make up a plastic — into their fundamental molecular building blocks, called monomers. Thierry Zoccolan / AFP via Getty Images.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Biotechnology 84