Shanghai startup creates more sustainable natural fiber from kapok trees
In Shanghai, a startup is claiming that its fiber made from the Kapok tree is the most sustainable textile on the market. Kapok trees,...
Seeing the light: Sustainable sun lenses from biobased material
In Italy, a partnership between Kering Eyewear and Zeiss Sunlens has successfully developed sun lenses from biobased materials.
The new lenses will be used with...
Biobased ropes trialed for mussel and seaweed cultivation
In Spain, the BIOGEARS project has developed biodegradable ropes from biobased materials that it will now test out for cultivation purposes at mussel and...
Soybean golf balls are tee-rific idea
In Kansas, researchers are developing biodegradable golf balls out of soybeans because the planet doesn’t get to claim a mulligan when novice golfers shank...
Good chemis-tree: Florida researchers develop sap plastic
In Florida, researchers have developed a plastic from pine sap after overcoming a key conversion challenge.
Justin Kennemur, an Associate Professor of Chemistry and...
Wind turbine wood repurposed for aquatic sports
In Germany, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a buoyant wood foam from balsa salvaged from out-of-commission wind turbines that can be used...
Danimer acquires Novomer for $152 million
In Georgia, polyhydroxyalkanoates bioplastics company Danimer Scientific has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Novomer, Inc., a New York-based producer of polymers and chemicals,...
Bota Bio raises $100 million in Series B
In San Francisco, industrial biotechnology startup Bota Bio has raised $100 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing. Founded in 2019, Bota Bio has developed...
DIC taps Debut Biotechnology for natural pigments
In Japan, DIC Corporation has signed a joint research pact with California’s Debut Biotechnology targeting natural pigments for food colorants and cosmetics.
Debut’s continuous, cell-free...
Worth a shot: Jose Cuervo gives away agave straws
In Mexico, tequila giant Jose Cuervo wants you to make a good decision for the planet even if you make bad decisions after ordering...