Yield10 Bioscience is an agricultural bioscience company focusing on the development of disruptive technologies to produce step-change improvements in crop yield for food and feed crops to enhance global food security. Experts forecast that food production must be increased by over 70% in the next 35 years to feed the growing global population, which is […]
In Georgia, Attis Industries unveiled the first of its planned new ecosystem of biobased products – biodegradable multi-use grocery bags. Through its recent investment in Genarex, the Company is able to reduce the cost of expensive compostable bags by introducing its biobased additive packages. The formulations pass the ASTM D6400 biodegradability testing for industrial compostability and […]
In France, Reuters reports that Total plans to appease protesting French farmers by using 50,000 metric tons of rapeseed as feedstock at its La Mede biorefinery, around 10% of the facility’s total production capacity, despite the company’s CEO saying it wasn’t the “most profitable” feedstock for the plant. Original plans were for 100% imported palm […]
In Germany, during the first three months of 2018, German exports of biodiesel rose strongly. Above all, demand from the U.S., Belgium and Austria saw sharp increases. In the first quarter of 2018, biodiesel exports increased more than 30 percent from same period last year to 428,620 metric tons (128.67 million gallons). Around 84 percent […]
In Italy, Eni will begin collecting used cooking oils from the homes of its employees, which will then be converted into high-quality biofuels. This pioneering initiative is part of Eni’s commitment to adopt a circular economy program across all of its business areas, with the aim of maximizing efficiency and the sustainable use of energy. […]
In India, as part of a wider package to bailout the flailing sugarcane industry, LiveMint reports that a whopping $655.25 million will be destined to helping sugarcane mills invest in ethanol production capacity that will allow them to reduce sugar production surpluses. The country has traditionally only allowed ethanol production from molasses but the long-awaited […]
In Washington, Reuters reports that RIN prices sank to five-year lows at just 18 cents each on Monday ahead of an anticipated proposal from the White House to reform the Renewable Fuel Standard. RIN production from ethanol exports as well as year-round E15 are two of the proposals previously batted around by the USDA and […]
In California, a closed-loop biorefinery could dramatically lower the cost of biofuels and related products. In this approach, the refinery produces the solvents it needs, rather than “importing” them. Scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute are developing a closed-loop biorefinery concept that uses waste lignin as a potential process solvent. How? They synthesized a new […]
In Washington, a coalition of biofuel and agriculture groups petitioned the U.S. EPA to change its regulations to account for lost volumes of renewable fuel resulting from the unprecedented number of retroactive small refinery exemptions from Renewable Fuel Standard obligations recently granted by EPA. The parties on the petition are the Renewable Fuels Association, American […]
In these top 20 projects, we usually say that we are using waste, but really we are converting something from a state of waste to a state of value — and that’s not just good for the project owners in question, it’s good for every stakeholder connected with that waste stream. A successful waste project […]
