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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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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Hundreds of thousands plastic microparticles are released in the environment every time you put on your makeup. Naturbeads explains how this can be done differently.
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Electronic waste (e-waste) is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, with an estimated 54 million tonnes generated annually. The most common element contributing is the printed circuit board, or PCB’s. JIVA invented the first recyclable PCB.
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