#025 – Fungi for food and for feed
I had no idea how much is wasted in the production of our food. With Mycorena we upcycle this waste into new food products.
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I had no idea how much is wasted in the production of our food. With Mycorena we upcycle this waste into new food products.
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The Berlin based start up Circular.Fashion developed the circularity.ID label for garments. The missing piece of information to close the loop in effective clothes recycling. And thus adressing the huge carbon footprint of the textiles industry, which is responsible for 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emission a year.
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Yearly, over 10.000 kilos food is wasted in each single restaurant. Lack of insight causes inefficient stock management and overproduction of dishes, wasting food but also money and energy. Orbisk has found a solution!
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SeedForward created the ‘Viagra for crops’; a blue bio-based formula to enhance soil health and growth of crops like maize and grains, to stand up tall and potent. Do these blue seeds hold the key to more sustainable methods of farming?
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N2 Applied has developed a solution to harvest nitrogen from the air using electricity and develops this into an efficient fertiliser. This fertile love couple is shaking up the agri industry.
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20% of the world population depends on fish to get their protein, causing overfishing and tremendous waste of 'by-catch'. Dan Watson felt frustrated by how slowly progress was being made in this industry to reduce by-catch and is now protecting marine life with simple use of light.
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Single use plastic packaging for food is already a huge global disaster recently exacerbated by the current climate and the need for more take away food alternatives. We meet SoluBlue, a company who have a clever design for a new material composed from seaweed which behaves just like plastic but quickly biodegrades and is totally safe for marine life.
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Enjay is the first company in the world to use the hot exhaust air produced by a kitchen to then minimise operation costs of restaurants. They have developed a product called Lepido which will be shaking up the restaurant industry by enabling profitable energy recovery from kitchen ventilation systems.
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The textiles industry is one of the biggest polluters in the world. The annual clothing volume for the UK alone requires over 20 billion litres of water to dye. At Colorifix, they use synthetic biology to copy how nature makes colours, by looking at DNA, which is used in the dying process.
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Building space heating is responsible for 36% of CO2 emissions across Europe this is equivalent with 1,176 million tonnes of CO2 emission! AirEx found a way to regulate this and invented an IoT airbrick.
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