Surf’s up with bioboards, Panasonic’s biobased appliances, CO2 textile fibers, Nestlé’s biodegradable snack bar wrapper, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 17th

Keep cool this summer with CO2 based textile fibers, biobased appliances, and surf the ocean waves on a biobased surfboard. But that’s not all because bioeconomy innovations are ripping and roaring! Here are the Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 17th.

In today’s Digest, surf’s up with bioboards, Panasonic’s biobased appliances, CO2 textile fibers, Nestlé’s biodegradable snack bar wrapper — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online.

#1 Surfs up! Making a water sport greener with biobased surfboards

In France, Notox is using recycled and biobased materials for creating more eco-friendly surfboards. They are using recycled EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam, renewable resources such as flax fibre and cork, and epoxy resins – for the composite – that are part bio-based, according to Youris.com. Conventional surfboards are made with plastics, glass and oil-based resins, but Notox’s founder, Pierre Pomiers, is using flax and cork to improve the sustainability and CO2 footprint of surfboards, though he notes that biobased versions of the foam blanks are not that great in terms of LCA because they aren’t recyclable, which is why he uses recycled EPS instead.

Pomiers told Youris.com that “one of its surfboards produces a kilogramme of waste, 75 per cent of which can be recycled, while more common manufacturing processes result in around six kilogrammes of waste that is hard, if not impossible, to reuse.”
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