Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

ReGrained is a food upcycling technology and ingredient platform that ‘rescues’ production side streams – currently brewers’ spent grain – and turns them into ‘delicious, versatile, better-for-you’ ingredients. Read the full story at Food Navigator.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A Singapore food partnership is aiming to upcycle the soy by-product okara into plant-based cheese products using proprietary technology. Read the full story at Dairy Reporter.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 28, 2023

Green Cell Technologies (GCT) and RWH Holdings (RWH) have worked with several global brewers over a period of eight years to understand the challenges around what to do with their leftovers—brewers spent grain (BSG) and brewers spent yeast (BSY)—and the answer, as it would happen, is disrupt it. Read the full story at Food Engineering.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 11, 2021

Tomorrow Water, an innovative total solution provider of water treatment technologies and eco-friendly waste management solutions, has been awarded a highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) grant by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In a bid to reduce the environmental burden associated with both the manufacturing and disposal of plastics, scientists have demonstrated a new upcycling technique that turns one common form of it into another.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

million in funding for R&D projects to advance next generation plastic technologies to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of single-use plastics. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. ” According to DOE’s EERE, less than ten percent of plastics are recycled currently.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 30, 2022

Minnesota-based startup Apparo – which developed technology now being deployed by AB InBev on a commercial scale to extract highly functional barley protein from brewer’s spent grains – has turned its attention to another upcycled protein it reckons could have just as much potential: sunflower.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News Upcycling plastic waste into graphite, used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, could positively contribute to the global economy, preserving resources, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to Penn State researchers.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

This is further complicated by the need for more robust processes that can convert diverse and contaminated plastic waste streams into useful chemical intermediates that can be upcycled into high-value products. According to the SPI, a lack of robust chemical and biological mechanisms limits the deconstruction of existing plastics.

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MAY 27, 2021

There are many obstacles to plastic film recycling, including collection, sorting, contamination, and lack of economically viable methods for recycling and upcycling. .” This is an effort by DOE to decarbonize the plastics industry and increase investments in recycling processes.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

CCEP Ventures (CCEPV) has announced two new partnerships with European research groups at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain and the University of Twente (UT) in the Netherlands, to accelerate research into carbon capture technology.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

By tapping into an array of technologies, from manure separation to strip tillage, and waste upcycling to robotic milking parlors, dairy farmers are implementing solutions that are cutting emissions and improving environmental outcomes. … Continue reading Webinar: How U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 15, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and education, community, industry, and other government partners. The Bioenergy Research and Education Bridge Program (BRIDGES) is a case study-based education curriculum created by the U.S.

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MAY 2, 2023

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment ( BOTTLE™ ), a DOE multi-organization consortium “focused on developing new chemical upcycling strategies for today’s plastics and redesigning tomorrow’s plastics to be recyclable-by-design.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

Million May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totaling $7.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This technology can be confusing and complex, so I have included a terms section for the italicized words at the end of this piece. Hydrometallurgical recycling is the best available technology because it has high mineral recovery rates and results in low environmental impacts. adding more cobalt).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

The clean-energy industry includes the technology sectors of energy efficiency, clean-energy generation, alternative transportation, clean grid and storage and clean fuels. Clean-energy sub-sectors include solar, wind, efficient lighting, hydropower, smart grid, electric vehicles, and biomass fuels. 11:00 to Noon.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Kathleen is also the vice president and co-chair of the board of directors at E8 Angels and a manager of the Decarbon8 fund, an impact investment organization that focuses on climate technology and sustainability start-ups.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2024

Begins 2nd Phase Of Single-Use Plastic Ban -- PA Resources Council Invites Entries Into Lens On Litter Photo Contest By Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2022

Steel Clash Over Allegheny County On New Coke [Coal] Oven Regulations -- Upcycling Plastic Waste Into Graphite Could Facilitate Transition To Electric Vehicles, Clean Energy [PaEN] -- MCall - Paul Muschick: America Stinks At Recycling Plastic, Why Don’t We Care?

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