Sustainable projects
Stinkweed could make a cleaner bio-jet fuel
A common farm weed could make a “greener” jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, a new study indicates.
Growing the weed, pennycress – often called stinkweed – as a crop requires less fertilizer and fewer pesticides… read more
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable plast..
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. It was a surprise to find our research could also address a big problem in sustainability: that of plastic pollution
Researchers from the… read more
Seaweed can feed 12 million people
If just two per cent of the Ocean were to be sustainably farmed, the world could easily be fed, according to experts. In the first story of a two-part series looking at the opportunities and challenges facing Ocean farming, we… read more
All Plastic Waste Could Be Recycled into New Plast..
A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. The resulting gases can then be transformed back into new plastics – of the same quality… read more
Potatoes for oysters
Restoring ecosystems
All over the world wet ecosytems like mangroves, marshes, coralreefs, coasts, are playing an important role in keeping the local nature in balance. This is common knowledge, but still many of these ecosystems are disappearing or degraded. People… read more
