In Austria, ANDRITZ has successfully received the Final Acceptance Certificate for a biomass handling plant at Eldorado’s Onça Pintada site in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul. This plant is part of the first thermoelectric power plant in Brazil to consume eucalyptus stumps and roots. The plant will be able to generate 50 megawatts of […]
It’s a great time to have a pet these days with Gucci’s new luxury line for pampered pooches using renewable raw materials and Manhatten fur babies can now frolic on soy-based artificial grass. For those musically inclined, there’s a new line of instruments using biobased materials like eggshells, mushrooms and honeycomb. In today’s Digest, check […]
In California, Lindsey Lohan and sustainable sneaker and clothing brand Allbirds have launched an activewear collection that is a nod to Mean Girls, an icon teen comedy starring Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Tina Fey. Leaning heavily into pink—which the main characters in the quotable cult classic made a point to wear on Wednesdays—the collection features […]
In Brazil, Petronoticias reports that Petrobras and Vallourec signed an agreement to evaluate opportunities for technological cooperation involving the production and use of bio-oil made from the condensation of gases produced during the transformation of Eucalyptus wood into charcoal. Petrobras said that the testing phase of this initiative is being carried out at Petrobras’ Research […]
Big name shoe and apparel companies like Nike, Pangaia and Old Navy are on a sustainability roll. News from Nike on their work with Newlight Technologies for wearables that actually sequester carbon, Pangaia’s addition of two new biobased fabrics to its collection made from pineapple and banana leaf waste and nettles, eucalyptus and seaweed, and […]
In London, sustainability-focused clothing brand Pangaia has added two new biobased fabrics to its collection. Made entirely from agricultural waste, PlntFiber and FrutFiber will help the company replace both synthetic fabrics based on petroleum as well as traditional, but water-intensive, plant-based materials like cotton. Sixty percent of FrutFiber is bamboo, while the balance is comprised […]
Can black algae instead of carbon black extracted from tar sands for garment dying save the day? What about kapok trees for fibers instead of water-intensive cotton? How about biobased sun lenses? Biobased ropes for mussel and seaweed cultivation? In today’s Digest, these eye-opening biobased innovations, hot news from Bolt Threads, Ginkgo, NatureWorks, Dow […]
In California, clothing brand Vollebak has been growing black algae in ponds to be used as dyes in T-shirts, enabling the garment to absorb CO2 for as much as a century. Traditionally, black garments are dyed with synthetic chemicals made from carbon black extracted from tar sands, a process with a sizable environmental impact. […]
The Olympics in Tokyo just ended and it is slated to be one of the hottest on record with extreme heat and humidity forcing changes to track, tennis and women’s soccer schedules and World Athletics president Sebastien Coe saying “You don’t have to be a devotee of climate change or a denier to know the […]
In San Francisco, startup company Wildtype gives salmon cells nutrients, sugars, salts, amino acids and growth factor to “grow” salmon tissue in its lab. If you are still hungry after that, Netherlands-based Mosa Meat is scaling up their industrial-sized production line to demonstrate the safety of cultivated meat and introduce the first cultivated beef to […]
