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Converting Cocoa Bean Waste into Bio-Fuel for West African Villages

African farming communities presently with little or no access to grid power may stand a chance to profit from a new green technology that can produce electricity from unwanted cocoa pod husks.

7 Mar 2019

Energy-X to Develop Economically Sound, Sustainable Energy Conversion Technologies

Discovering ways to sustainably generate chemicals and energy and replace the fossil fuels that are the basis for chemical and energy industry is extremely important due to climate change.

6 Mar 2019

Researchers Discover an Effective and Safe Biopesticide to Ensure Environmental Sustainability

According to a research team from Cardiff University, in association with the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a strain of useful bacteria could be repurposed to produce a sustainable, safe, and natural substitute to synthetic chemical pesticides.

5 Mar 2019

Starlinger and PET2PET Collaborate to Boost PET Recycling to Meet Growing Demand

Austrian company PET2PET has collaborated with Starlinger to meet the growing demand for recycled material. The joint efforts of the two have resulted in increasing the output by 20%.

From Starlinger & Co Gmbh 1 Mar 2019

Researchers Convert Carbon Dioxide Back into Solid Coal Using Liquid Metals

Scientists have converted carbon dioxide back into solid coal using liquid metals, in a first-ever ground-breaking discovery that could revolutionize the approach to carbon capture and storage.

27 Feb 2019

Bio-On and Innova Imagen Collaborate for the Production of Bioplastics in Mexico

Bio-on and Innova Imagen (Himes Group) announce the signing of a new agreement to produce ultra-green PHA biopolymers in Mexico.

27 Feb 2019

New Enzyme-based Polymerization Method Enable Greener PEF Production

Recently, polymer chemists from the University of Groningen, led by Prof. Katja Loos, have described an enzyme-based polymerization method to produce PEF, an alternative to PET, which can be made from bio-based furan molecules.

21 Feb 2019

Researchers Reduce Ammonia and Methane Emissions Produced by Ruminants

Based on an earlier treatment of proteins on their diet, researchers from UPM have successfully decreased the ammonia and methane emissions produced during the process of digestion in ruminants.

18 Feb 2019

Firing up Phosphate Production

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has developed a smelting process to produce soluble phosphate for fertiliser from low value ores, eliminating hazardous waste and making production more economically and environmentally sustainable.

18 Feb 2019

Efforts to Curb Plastic Pollution Caused by Microplastics

Despite the polyester leisure suit being a 1970s mistake, polyester and other synthetic fibers such as nylon are still in use, and are a huge contributor to the volume of microplastics in the environment, according to a materials scientist from Penn State University (PSU), who suggests swapping to biosynthetic fibers to resolve this issue.

18 Feb 2019