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Corona’s barley waste packaging, Skittles biodegradable wrappers, Nestlé’s biobased polyethylene, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 25th

Corona’s barley waste packaging, Skittles biodegradable wrappers, Nestlé’s biobased polyethylene, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 25th

March 24, 2021 |

The coronavirus vaccine is offering hope to end a global pandemic, much like rainbows signal hope and solidarity. Today’s Top 8 Innovations are full of Corona and Rainbows, but in a different way. From beer mainstay Corona which is testing a six-pack holder made of recycled wood fibers and leftover barley straws to Mars Wrigley’s […]

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5 Rules of Engagement for ESG – Part 2: Measuring and Managing ESG to Attract Financing

5 Rules of Engagement for ESG – Part 2: Measuring and Managing ESG to Attract Financing

March 23, 2021 |

By Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO Special to The Digest In an exclusive Special to the Digest, Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO shares a 2-Part Series on ESG Investing and the Bioeconomy. In this second part, we look at the importance of measuring and managing environmental, social, and governance […]

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The Global Industrial Bioeconomy Opportunity: Is Canada Going to Get Serious?

The Global Industrial Bioeconomy Opportunity: Is Canada Going to Get Serious?

March 22, 2021 |

By Jeff Passmore, CEO Passmore Group Inc.; Chair, Scaling Up Special to The Digest If you heard Canada is sitting on an untapped $200 billion/year sustainable economic development opportunity for forestry, agriculture and municipal solid waste, would you not want to hear more? In its May 2020 report “The Bio Revolution: Innovations transforming economies, societies, […]

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Gimme a piece of that! Licella, Nestlé, others have sweet news on plastic waste to plastic resource

Gimme a piece of that! Licella, Nestlé, others have sweet news on plastic waste to plastic resource

March 21, 2021 |

It was a big week of news for Licella and their Cat-HTR platform in Australia with two soft plastic project announcements. First, Licella joined forces with a group of high-profile companies like Nestlé and LyondellBasell, who have collaborated to produce Australia’s first soft plastic food wrapper made with food-grade recycled content. Second, Licella launched a […]

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Corbion’s lactic acid, BASF biosurfactants, seed PPE, Hermès mushroom-leather bag, sugarcane UGGs, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 19th

Corbion’s lactic acid, BASF biosurfactants, seed PPE, Hermès mushroom-leather bag, sugarcane UGGs, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 19th

March 18, 2021 |

As spring nears in some parts of the world and COVID vaccine availability improves, we think of hope, seeds and new growth. One designer took it literally and created biodegradable PPE face masks from rice paper filled with flower seeds to bring forth new growth when discarded. French luxury goods maker Hermès launched a mushroom-leather […]

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Mess With Texas: Time for a 2nd look at Electric Vehicles

Mess With Texas: Time for a 2nd look at Electric Vehicles

March 17, 2021 |

  By Burl Haigwood, Advisor to the Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest The Great Texas Blackout of 2021 was a travesty, and one we can never repeat. Imagine it is 2050 and Texas gets hit by another winter storm, flood, heat wave, or God forbid, a physical or cyber terrorist attack on […]

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9 Ways to Establish an Ethical Framework – Part 1 of The Importance of Ethics in ESG Investing

9 Ways to Establish an Ethical Framework – Part 1 of The Importance of Ethics in ESG Investing

March 16, 2021 |

By Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO Special to The Digest In an exclusive Special to the Digest, Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO shares a 2-Part Series on ESG Investing and the Bioeconomy. In this first part, we look at the importance of ethics in ESG investing and how to […]

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CIRCA’s Landmark IPO: What does it mean for renewable chemicals, and the IPO market for bioindustrials?

CIRCA’s Landmark IPO: What does it mean for renewable chemicals, and the IPO market for bioindustrials?

March 15, 2021 |

Late last month, we reported that Circa Group had completed a €56 million (about USD$66 million) IPO and is now trading on the Euronext Growth Oslo exchange where it is trading roughly at the IPO price (16.75 NOK – about $1.98 per share), for the month it has traded in a 14.77-19.75 NOK range — […]

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Fighting Fraud with Tech – RSB, Bioledger build up blockchain for biofuels traceability  

Fighting Fraud with Tech – RSB, Bioledger build up blockchain for biofuels traceability  

March 14, 2021 |

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials and Bioledger are using blockchain technology to fight fraud and see how it can support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified in securing the supply of sustainable renewables. The proposed solution — a blockchain database that enables verifiable proof of origin, secure consignment creation, process […]

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First index of publicly traded plant-based stocks launched, vegan plant-based products taking off, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 12th

First index of publicly traded plant-based stocks launched, vegan plant-based products taking off, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 12th

March 11, 2021 |

What do Chipotle, e.l.f. and RuPaul have in common? They are partnering up on a plant-based vegan line of make-up. And H&M launched a new collection featuring vegan leather made from prickly pear cactus. And if you want an investment portfolio that is 100% free from animals, you are in luck with the first index […]

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