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- Issue 06 | 2020
Circular economy for plastics
Biotechnological solutions for degradation and recycling of plastics - Issue 06 | 2020
Innovation Alliance
INGRAIN will use available residual waste streams from agriculture, food-processing and textile industries - Issue 06 | 2018
Valorizing side streams
Rodenburg Biopolymers’ activities started in 1945, trading plant-derived products for various industries. Soon Arie Rodenburg added side stream activities, by buying defects from potato sorters. This ... - Issue 06 | 2018
Is Algae a sustainable feedstock for bioplastics?
As demand for bioplastics grows, the industry is starting to feel the challenge of finding sustainable biofeedstock. Algae appears to be a promising source [1]. Algae can be both grown commercially, ... - Issue 06 | 2018
Waste Cooking Oil as a Source for PHA
Low quality waste cooking oil (WCO) has traditionally been regarded as a low-value waste product, unfit for further use. Not by Czech company NAFIGATE Corporation, however, whose Hydal Biotechnology ... - Issue 04 | 2012
Bioplastics from chicken feathers
In a scientific advance literally plucked from the waste heap, scientists described a key step toward using the billions of pounds of waste chicken feathers produced each year to make a new biobased ... - Issue 04 | 2012
Fish scales to goggles
Before you can enjoy a nice fish meal in a good restaurant the fish has to be scaled. But what happens to the tonnes of fish scales that end up as a byproduct each year? - Issue 04 | 2012
PHA from waste water
Transformation of residual materials and waste water into valuable bioplastics - Issue 04 | 2012
Bioplastic products from kiwi waste
New Zealand has extensive forestry, agricultural and horticultural industries that produce significant volumes of biomass waste. Scion, New Zealand’s forestry research institute, is discovering and ... - Issue 04 | 2012
Bioplastics from agro waste
Bioplastics are still rather expensive and are sometimes (rightly or wrongly) blamed for potential competition with food production. SPC Biotech Pvt. Ltd at Hyderabad, India, has developed a new ...