You may have seen The Digest’s top story early this week on Carbios’ latest acquisition, but here’s a follow up you won’t want to miss with their latest presentation highlighting millions in capital increase, their PET and PLA enzyme tech to fully break-down plastics, infinite recycling to solve plastic pollution, and more.
CIRCULAR debuts, a journal of sciences, ideas and technologies with major personalities, in-depth journalism, and inviting design. Today, a new magazine of science, ideas and sustainable brands appears from the creators of The Daily Digest, the world’s most widely-read bioeconomy daily: CIRCULAR. From Nobel Prize-winning scientists to Hollywood celebs, everyone is talking ‘circular economy’ and […]
What to do with the world’s most available and inexpensive feedstock – garbage? Cielo’s tech is capable of converting multiple waste streams into renewable fuel like high-grade renewable diesel, kerosene (aviation get and marine fuel) and naphtha. Get the latest on their commercial facility, production, the tech behind it, and more.
News arrived late last week that Cargill and HELM have formed a JV known as Qore to help leading brands replace fossil-based chemistries with bio-based intermediates, and are investing a combined $300 million to build the first commercial-scale, renewable BDO (1,4-butanediol) facility in the U.S. Today, let’s look behind the headlines. Despite all the “California, […]
Spiber’s partnership with ADM! The all-new Qore JV between Cargill and HELM (using Genomatica technology). Both setting up shop in Iowa to revolutionize biobased materials. Get the Inside True Story— spider silk proteins and bio-based BDO, what are the techs, projects, apps, rationales and more.
What if we could build a biorefinery in every state and divert all 76 million dry T/y of organic wastes into transportation biofuels…forever? That’s what Pacific Northwest National Lab hopes will happen someday as they work on accelerating the adoption of promising conversion technologies.
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Sweet Gazoil was founded to solve water pollution from waste and used oil. EPA states that 60% of water pollution […]
Global protein consumption, especially of meat, continues to rise. The food industry’s burgeoning demand for livestock creates massive environmental, health, financial and ethical problems, but MeaTech is developing an alternative with an industrial cultured meat production process with integrated 3D printing technology. Find out about this cellular agriculture and Meat 2.0.
Check out this NREL slide guide covering their latest work on waste-to-energy resources, municipal solid waste (MSW) streams available for bioenergy conversions, and the latest data and analyses on WTE projects. From food waste management pathways, wood waste, management cost and policy structures.
For an invisible gas, hydrogen seems to come in more colors than boy of crayons. And, you have to learn to weed out the greenwash and the cleanwash. And some of the hogwash. Take for example the news from North Dakota, where Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas, inked a strategic partnership agreement to create […]
