GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Now, it captures industrial waste gasses, such as CO2 and CO, and recycles them into the chemicals used to make everything from plastics to medical supplies to fabric for Lululemon. It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company. It has even spun out an entire company focused on jet fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

Radiation-resistant microbiome inside microwaves resembles that on solar panels Since the industrial revolution, microbes have successfully colonized one novel type of habitat after another: for example marine oil spills, plastic floating in the oceans, industrial brownfields, and even the interior of the International Space Station.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The membranes have the potential to be used in various sectors including wastewater treatment, for example to remove particular pollutants such as phosphate, and in biotechnology to extract valuable products from fermentation broth, such as vitamins and pharmaceuticals.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Unilever said the €1bn of funding will specifically finance biotechnology research, CO2 utilisation technologies, low carbon chemistry research, and biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations, while also helping the firm halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

New £120m venture aims to scale up biotechnology alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels used to make everyday products. Unilever did not disclose the amount it had invested in the partnership, but confirmed it was the largest investment it had made to date in biotechnology alternatives to palm oil.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the past century, contaminants such as plastic turned the world upside down. Plastic litters the Earth and contributes to carbon emissions. Scientists from Aalto University in Finland are working on bio-based degradable materials that could replace plastic. Via Newswise Lead image via Pexels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

“This project is both an excellent example of what expertise in industrial biotechnology can achieve and a triumph in converting a challenging industrial residue into a higher value product using microbes. An ecological alternative to plastic?

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

The firm said it will work with Econic Technologies to explore the potential for using captured carbon dioxide from its biomass power station to displace oil in the production of plastic products through the use of Econic Technologies' catalyst technology.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Concern over climate change far outstripped other issues, with just 12 per cent selecting nuclear war as the "biggest risk to Earth's future", and only five and seven per cent highlighting the misuse of artificial intelligence and biotechnology, respectively.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For instance, according to studies from the National Institute of Health (NIH) , certain plastics found in consumer packaging can lead to cancers, diabetes, neurological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other various ill-health effects caused by inhalation or direct contact. Are you utilizing post-consumer materials ?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Because biotechnology alone can’t restore the American chestnut to the numbers that its supporters are envisioning, Powell anticipates relying on citizen scientists. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

The brand works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to help them get new therapies to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible. Doing business virtually has helped Synterex reduce paper, food, and plastic waste by encouraging dining at home and virtually eliminating commuting-related carbon emissions.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They regularly use excess resources/wastes and byproducts, aiming to reduce use of plastics by replacing them in various products they create. Biohm has become an example of what’s possible in development and bio-manufacturing of natural materials for the built environment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

US-based LanzaTech uses a biotechnology to transform CO2 emissions from heavy industry into fuels and chemicals. It has previously used its technology to turn steel mill emissions into sustainable aviation fuel , clothing ranges , trainers , plastics , laundry detergent, household cleaning products and even perfumes.

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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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. As another example, the digitization of the electrical grid, is changing the way power is delivered and consumed.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Young, who completed her Bachelor’s in molecular biology and biotechnology, sees art as a way of getting people to care about the science. Art cannot replace science — what art can do is to hook people,” she said from her years of experience bridging the science/art divide in her work.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 12, 2019

Microvi | Biotechnologies for safe drinking water, wastewater treatment, and renewable chemicals | watch. BioCellection | Upcycling hard-to-recycle plastic waste | watch. BlocPower | Machine learning and structured finance to green inner cities | watch. Scoot | Shared electric mobility | watch. CIRCULAR ECONOMY.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

That’s when the idea for Mi Terro, his social impact biotechnology company focused on turning milk waste into fibers that can be used in apparel and packaging, started to bubble up. . Last summer, Ponomareva was part of the team that rolled out SFO’s plastic water bottle ban — the first such ban at a major U.S. Heather Clancy.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

beaches with plastic waste. Trump’s remarks — and much of the ongoing discussion about the United States’ responsibility to address the plastic pollution crisis — seem to be rooted in a landmark 2015 research paper that, for the first time, attempted to estimate how much ocean-bound plastic pollution was coming from which countries.

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