Canadian research team develop bio-glitter
Glitter products are everywhere: from party decorations, to cosmetics, to costumes and even boat paint. But glitter is often made of microplastics in the form of flakes, making its small…
Balena’s slides are the world’s first 100% biodegradable footwear
Balena, the material science company aiming at transforming the fashion industry, debuted its eco-chic BioCir Slides, made of its proprietary, 100% biodegradable plastic – developed to help the fashion industry…
Diageo to power factories in East Africa with converted biomass
Diageo Plc’s East African unit is using biomass from macadamia shells, sugar bagasse and coffee and rice husks to produce electricity at factories in Kenya and Uganda. This allows the…
Yeasty raises €1.4m for alt protein made from brewer’s yeast
Yeasty, a startup company headquartered in Paris has raised €1.4 million in a pre-seed funding round. The goal is to further develop and scale its sustainable protein derived from upcycled…
GRINNER project to prevent fires caused by batteries at e-waste recycling facilities
GRINNER, a recent project funded through the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, will concentrate on trying to reduce the impact of fires caused by batteries.
Bio-based textile innovations at ISPO Munich
After a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sports trade fair ISPO Munich returned in November with the guiding theme ‘New perspectives on sports’, which aimed to examine topics…
Teijin Frontier’s new highly biodegradable PLA resin could reduce microplastics
Teijin Frontier, the Teijin Group’s fibers and products converting company, has developed a practical polylactic acid (PLA) resin that biodegrades faster in oceans, rivers and soil compared to conventional PLA…
ArkeaBio lands $12M seed investment to develop technology for reducing on-farm methane emissions
Arkea Bio Corp, a pioneer in developing technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector, has announced the successful close of a $12 million Seed Series financing round…
Eco Wave Power wins innovation award for its planned wave energy installation in Spain
Eco Wave Power Global has won the Timón de Innovación Award granted by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands in collaboration with Gaceta Náutica, a publication focused on ports…
Tantech helps set international standards for bamboo-based activated carbon
Tantech Holdings Ltd announced that its subsidiary, Zhejiang Tantech Bamboo Charcoal Co received a certificate from the Bamboo and Rattan Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TC 296).
Triton Anchor closes seed round investment
Triton Anchor has pioneered a first-of-its-kind anchoring technology that solves the problems of low volume outdated and fragmented legacy anchor systems. By offering a flexible group anchoring solution, Triton Anchor…
Vertimass to convert carbon dioxide into jet fuel through Danish Government Award
Vertimass, with the mission to commercialize breakthrough sustainable fuels that reduce carbon emissions, announced that a consortium with whom it is partnering has been awarded approximately $1.35 million to pilot…