Reading glasses đ at the ready for this weeks feature story on the sustainability of eyewear... stay focused!
As always, our newsroom has great bio news for you, from startups innovating in fungi #packaging, #discoveries of enzymes for long lasting fruits, to #investments for cow-burped methane reduction đŽ.
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FEATURE STORY
Plant-based frames and lenses take on oil-based eyewear
There is a catch to the pollution-reducing potential of bioplastic eyewear. Right now, there are promising biodegradable materials on the market but a severe lack of specially equipped facilities capable of breaking them down into reformable components at the end of their product life.
Israeli biotech startup lands $2M for fungi packaging
Made Right is deploying fermentation tech to cultivate fungi grown on organic industrial waste such as wood chips to produce sustainable materials that are biodegradable to create a plastic alternative for packaging.
Trials for novel fruit packaging suggest that blueberry season could last longer
Polandâs Fresh Inset, a tech company focused on harvest freshness preservation, has tested in a trial its characteristic Vidre + product on blueberries to lengthen their life span in packaging.
Tatu City welcomes urban agroforestry farm in Kenya
Syntropic agroforestry imitates ecological succession, which is natureâs way of restoring land from barren to fertile. It achieves this by growing a diverse range of fruits, nuts, vegetables, timber, and livestock in the same production area.
Start-up fighting cow-burped methane lands US$29 M in Series B funding
When added to cattle feed, Methane Tamerâwhich uses a red seaweedâreduces the animalsâ methane emissions by up to 90% while also reducing the feed energy lost to methane emissions.
Quadpackâs Woodacity Collection goes all across cosmetic packaging
The collection includes lipsticks, compacts, jars and closures for perfume bottles, lotion packs and tubes and all made with a full-wood range with little or no plastic parts.
