Technology
Unilever to Use Computer-Designed Enzymes in Cleaning Products
Unilever and Arzeda are joining forces to apply the most recent developments in digital biology to discovering and designing new enzymes. Unilever is looking to use the resulting technology to substitute some of its leading cleaning and laundry products, like…
Bolt Threads to Improve Efficiency and Sustainability of Its Bioengineered Silk with Ginkgo Bioworks
Bolt Threads, a US biotechnology company is joining forces with Ginkgo Bioworks, a company creating a platform that allows users to “program cells as easily as computers”. Bolt Threads hopes that the partnership will help make the manufacturing process for…
Circulor Unveils Blockchain-based Plastic Traceability Software
Sustainable supply chain management firm Circulor has announced its partnership with TotalEnergies and Recycling Technologies to develop a blockchain-based traceability solution for hard-to-recycle plastics. Innovate UK is also providing financial support for the project. The new scheme, known as project…
Japanese Researchers Streamline Cellulose-breakdown for Bioethanol
A team of scientists from the Institute of Science and Engineering at Kanazawa University, Japan have developed a new kind of solvent to break down plant cellulose in the bioethanol production process. The new mixtures are more environmentally friendly and…
Researchers Develop Dissolvable Smartwatch
Small electronics such as the popular fitness trackers and smartwatches are not easy to take apart and recycle. When disposed of, the devices are sent into toxic waste streams. According to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers have developed a…
Special: Anaerobic Digestion Explained
While it may sound like an unappealing bodily process, anaerobic digestion is a crucial method to create biogas for electricity generation, as well as a source of bio-fertiliser production. We thought we’d take a closer look at just what the…