Recently, GALY, an American biotech company focused on cellular agriculture, announced the completion of a $33 million Series B financing round. The round was led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and other investors included well-known fashion groups H&M and Inditex. The funding...
Recently, Tesla leather supplier Ultrafabrics and its partner Tapis introduced AV Bio bio-based performance fabrics that set a new standard for sustainability without compromising performance or comfort. Incorporating renewable plant materials into its multi-layer structures, replacing some of ...
Polylactic acid, also known as PLA, is a thermoplastic monomer. It comes from renewable organic sources such as corn starch or sugar cane. This means that PLA is different from most plastics. Instead of breaking down into persistent microplastics, it degrades completely in the presence of water (hyd...
At the end of August, Professional Pickleball Partners of Kansas City, Kansas, USA launched a Compost-a-Bal (compost ball). In recent years, a kind of pickleball has become popular in the U.S. Bill Gates is said to have been a veteran pickleball player for decades.
Pickleball, which also means ...
In a world awash with petroleum-based plastics, scientists are looking for alternatives that are more sustainable, more biodegradable and less toxic to the environment. Two new studies by biologists at Washington University (WashU) in St. Louis, USA, have found a purple bacteria that, with a little ...
Recently, FILA (Italian fashion sports brand) launched a “natural symbiosis T” T-shirt, each T-shirt using low-energy dyeing process and biodegradable materials. The main fabrics are all made of biodegradable fibers: 60% cotton + 40% CELYS™ polyester, and the woven labels, combinations of label...
On September 2, an AU$8 million (RMB 38.42 million) bioplastics innovation center was officially opened in Australia. The center is developing 100 percent compostable bioplastics from food waste such as cooking oil, including producing bioplastics that can decompose in compost, land or water. T...
On August 28, Denmark's LEGO, the world's most profitable toy company, announced its first-half 2024 financial results, with plans to have half of the plastic in its building block products by 2026 made from renewable or recycled materials. By 2032, LEGO aims to shift completely to renewable and rec...
At the end of August, California lawmakers passed two identical bills to ban all plastic shopping bags in California. The State Senate passed AB 2236 on the evening of August 28th and the State Assembly passed SB 1053 on August 29th.Both bills aim to completely ban grocers from offering any non-pape...
Recently, DOE's Bio-Optimized Technologies for Keeping Thermoplastics Out of Landfills and Out of the Environment (BOTTLE) scientists, including a team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Colorado State University, developed a series of PHAs with different properties, some of wh...
