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While we are not exactly travelling 30 years back in time in a converted DeLorean🚘 we are going Back to the Future. Each week we will bring you one of the presentations from World Bio Markets 2023 that took place earlier this year.

Not only can you watch the episode but you can also view the slides, and if you want to see all the presentations in one place then just head over to the World Bio Markets website.

This weeks feature story dives into ghost fishing and how to turn sea equipment waste into shiny #biobased products.

In our newsroom you can find the latest on Levi's three new #biobased jeans, water-based food #packaging coating, and how #investments in microalgae are building future cosmetics.

Enjoy!

FEATURE STORY

Tackling ‘ghost catch’ with circular and bio-based fishing gear

‘Ghost fishing’ is the term for lost gear at sea that continues to entrap wildlife. Projects and startups around the world are trying to tackle the problem through new biodegradable gear and upcycling businesses that transform discarded equipment into new products.

>> Read the article

Back to the Future

Series 23, Episode 1

A presentation by Benoit Cugnet, Head of Fiber Business, AMSilk at World Bio Markets 2023

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NEWSROOM

CHITOSE and Shiseido form partnership to enable microalgae cosmetics

Because microalgae boasts high biomass production efficiency compared with land plants, it has the possibility of being a new resource that is not dependent on finite fossil resources.

>> Read more

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Melodea introduces new biobased food packaging coating

Melox NGen is the water-based, plant-sourced coating new iteration of Melodea’s award-winning bio-based and renewable material MelOx for paper packaging but designed specifically for use on plastic.

>> Read more

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Ayana Bio opens new lab for cacao bioactives

The lab supports the expansion of plant cell-cultivated ingredients into the dietary supplement, food & beverage, and sports nutrition markets. It is in the same building as Ayana Bio’s strategic partner, Ginkgo Bioworks.

>> Read more

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Levi’s gets a bio-makeover for its 150th anniversary

The jeans show what the industry could look like in the years ahead given the push to minimize synthetic materials derived from fossil fuels and the need to make more garments with renewable inputs rather than finite resources.

>> Read more

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WasteFuel lands $10M in Series B round from bp ventures

bp expanded its investment in bioenergy by committing $10 million in WasteFuel, a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels.

>> Read more

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