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Growing demand in the fisheries sector has resulted in a high generation of side-streams that are mainly treated as waste despite their potential value in terms of protein, fatty...

With funding from the European Commission, an unprecedented collaboration between Carbon Minds, numerous project partners, and many supporters in the chemical industry is developing significant improvements to the Environmental Footprint...

Efforts to make food systems more sustainable have emphasized reducing adverse environmental impacts of agriculture. In contrast, chemical and biological processes that could produce food...

From an environmental perspective, the transition from a fossil to a bio-based economy may underpin some trade-offs associated to the environmental impacts of bio-based supply chains and, there is thus a need...

A global circular economy will allow us to fulfil people's needs with only 70% of the materials we now extract and use—moving human activity back within...

To make the transition to a more sustainable bio-based economy, new technologies and products will have to be developed. Nevertheless, it is essential to ensure- at an early stage of development-...

By providing a circular, bio-based plastic industry with emissions-free electricity, and by avoiding waste incineration, the sector may even grow to become a form of carbon sink. That is the conclusion of an article...

Scientists at the DHBW Karlsruhe create a concept study and prototype

Purpose: Current patterns of household goods consumption generate relevant environmental pressures and impacts. Environmental impacts are not only limited to the European territory but also...