Algae, Nanocomposites, And The World’s Most Hard-To-Recycle Plastic
2022 marked a historic year for action on plastic pollution. In March, almost 200 countries negotiated towards a legally binding...
Tokyo University Algae Spinoff Faces Down Japan’s Food Supply Fears
Tokyo-based Algal Bio is a startup whose time has come. As supply chain concerns grow in Japan, by far the...
Colourful Algae Throws Shade On Fossil Fuel Pigments
Scott’s company is Living Ink Technologies, a Colorado-based start-up making algal pigments for clients across the ink, plastics, cosmetics, and...
Sustainable aviation fuels are here. Who is using them?
In 2019, worldwide commercial airlines consumed 98 billion gallons of fuel, amounting to 2.4 percent of global emissions. When the...
The Biggest Bio-Textile Investments Of 2022 (So Far)
The last ten months has seen bio-based fashion startups sustain its investment bonanza of 2021, when three of the top...
Insect-killing fungi can wean agriculture off fossil synthetics
An estimated 20 – 40 percent of crop yield are lost to pests each year. Although synthetic insect-killing formulas have...
Biden’s $2 Billion Bioeconomy Plan Puts Biomanufacturing At Heart Of Federal Policy
On September 12, Joe Biden signed an executive order to inject $2 billion into the US bioeconomy. The National Biotechnology...
Can bio-based agtech feed the world? These microbial start-ups say yes
Achieving sustainable food production for a growing world population will be one of the greatest challenges of the coming century....
Recycling startups tackle cotton’s environmental toll
Cotton is one of the world’s most popular and oldest biomaterials, accounting for around a quarter of all textile production....
The chitosan packaging industry is only just beginning
In 1823, a scientist named Antoine Odier created a hornlike material after treating a beetle with potassium hydroxide. This was...
