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Picture this: you're walking down a carpet made from #waste, wearing #zero-carbon shoes, and leaving the scent of your perfume which was made with alcohol from #carbon-capture... welcome to a bio-based future 😍.

 

Only 4 weeks to go until the international bioeconomy community gathers in The Hague for World Bio Markets 2023.

 

If you are still to buy your delegate pass... what are you waiting for? The online meeting planner opens next week and enables you to pre-arrange 1-2-1 commercial meetings with potential customers and partners - the most cost and time efficient way of connecting, collaborating and networking.

 

Meet consumer brands, bio developers & producers (startups and scaleups), investors & financiers and community enablers... check out who you can meet here.

 

Enjoy the long weekend with family and friends.

FEATURE STORY

A synbio takeover for AI?

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Talk of artificially intelligence constructions inside bio-based machines may sound like distant fantasy, but scientists have already made concrete advances that may feed into a working model. Step by step, scientists are piecing together the many elements of a fully bio-based, programmable, and autonomous living machine. Biological robots may one day surpass machines in autonomy, intelligence, and sustainability.

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Another great speaker taking to the stage!

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Bio Hydroxy Polymers - the missing link in bioplastics

 

Dr John Williams - Aquapak Polymers

 

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Coty launches world’s first fragrance made with 100% carbon-captured alcohol

Coty announced that its new Gucci Eau de Parfum, Where My Heart Beats, will be the first globally distributed fragrance manufactured using alcohol from 100% recycled carbon emissions.

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Caravelle signs $60M deal with Bestwood Joinery for sustainably dried wood

Caravelle will source 120,000 cubic meters of lumber from Indonesia, later transport it to Bestwood Joinery in Cape Town, South Africa, and dry the wood in transit using Caravelle’s CO-Tech technology using only recycled heat from the ship’s engine.

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Melodea introduces innovative sustainable barrier coating

Green-tech company Melodea launched VBseal™, its new sustainable packaging solution to cut back plastic waste in consumer-packaged goods. The green coating solution is resistant to water vapor, oil, aroma and has heat-sealing properties.

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Shaw Industries to provide Encina with carpet waste

Under the agreement, Shaw will provide Encina with more than 2 million pounds of waste materials from its carpet manufacturing processes annually.

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Svante lands $5M from United Airlines to convert CO2 into SAF

Svante's scalable, eco-friendly, and commercially available carbon capture and removal technology employs structured absorbent beds that can capture 95% of CO2 emissions from industrial sites as well as CO2 that’s already in the air.

>> Read more

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Allbirds presents the world’s first zero carbon shoe

Allbirds, a New Zealand based company, has created the world’s first net zero carbon shoe, the M0.0NSHOT. Its landmark carbon footprint — 0.0 kg CO₂e, versus an industry average of 14 kg CO₂e — was achieved without relying on offsets.

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READS OF THE WEEK

New biomass boilers help slash Canterbury's reliance on coal for hospitals

Could this bio-glass made from mussel shells be a sustainable building alternative?

Chemists use bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into bioplastic

 

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