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This week's news, insights and inspiration for the global bioeconomy community

| View in browser   Check us out, we've had a makeover. We hope you like our fresh new look and feel.   World Bio Market Insights is the new name for Bio Market Insights - same great content and team, new look.   Besides bringing you a fresh new look, we're also here with the best in the bio-world, stretching from shoes made from #carbonemissions, #startup funding all the way to new #PP lids. Plus our feature story on #cotton and a look back at the session by Geno at World Bio Markets 2022.   BREAKING NEWS: World Bio Markets returns to The Netherlands in 2023. Click here to explore how you can be part of the most exciting event serving the global bioeconomy community.   Enjoy.   FEATURE STORY Recycling startups tackle cotton’s environmental toll Cotton is one of the world’s most popular and oldest biomaterials, accounting for around a quarter of all textile production. Yet its future as a cheap clothing staple is now in question as overproduction fuels environmental breakdown. Intensive cultivation in this thirsty crop has been linked to increasing drought conditions. Aside from this, the plant requires massive amounts of fertilizer that leaches into waterways, contributing to habitat and biodiversity loss. Water usage doesn’t stop at cultivation and harvest either. Making a single cotton t-shirt requires a further 713 gallons of water.    >> Read the article A WORLD BIO MARKETS 2022 PRESENTATION The sustainable materials transition Sasha Calder, Head of Impact, Genomatica. >> Watch here NEWSROOM On presents the first ever shoe made from carbon emissions in partnership with LanzaTech, Borealis and Technip Energies Swiss sports brand creates supply chain coalition to reshape carbon waste into running shoes. Today, the next critical step in this project has been reached – the reveal of Cloudprime. >> Read more     NEWSROOM Circular sportswear from beans: project receives EU funding Circuvate and The Good Factory are proud to present their joint project; BioAce, a dedicated circular system for 100% bio-based performance sportswear. >> Read more     NEWSROOM Ineos to deliver Covestro mass-balanced feedstock for polycarbonate Chemical company Ineos will now supply Covestro with the two mass-balanced raw materials; phenol and acetone, from Ineos’ Inviridis product portfolio. >> Read more     NEWSROOM Mycel raises $10M in funding South Korean startup Mycel said it has raised $10 million (13 billion WON) in a pre-Series A round of funding. The company makes fungal-based biomaterials that can replace leather and meat. >> Read more     NEWSROOM CUPEX launches reusable PP lid for to-go drinks Made of dimensionally stable polypropylene (PP), COMFORT is made up of three individual parts that the consumer can pull apart and wash, either by hand or in a dishwasher. When it reaches the end of its life, COMFORT is recyclable. >> Read more Returning home to The Netherlands in 2023 Click here to explore how you can be part of the most exciting event serving the global bioeconomy community READS OF THE WEEK Patagonia and Ecosia: The big companies profiting the Earth thanks to eco-conscious founders Chemicals net zero shift 'hinges on green hydrogen' Dutch students have invented a zero-emissions car that captures carbon as it drives     Get in touch with the team to explore collaborative opportunities Get in Touch   Follow us on social media You are receiving this email because you are subscribed, are a customer or have shown an interest in World Bio Market Insights services. World Bio Market Insights is owned by TNP Media Ltd. If somebody forward you this then please sign up here Owned and operated by TNP Media Ltd, 2/f, FWD Financial Centre, Central, Hong Kong Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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