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Advanced reactors expand the possibilities of nuclear for clean energy and beyond.

A California startup makes compostable replacements for thin-film plastic out of seaweed. The company sources raw materials from seaweed farms, which can provide habitat for sea life, combat ocean acidification, and create jobs. For more, visit swaythefuture.com. MORE WORLD WIDE WASTE VIDEOS: Turning Tofu Waste Into Cooking Gas Helps Clean Rivers In Indonesia | World Wide Waste https://youtu.be/7bP2kWOGl4Q Making Eyeglasses From Coffee Grounds In Ukraine | World Wide Waste | Business Insider https://youtu.be/e-iL2hzVePM How Bricks Made From Milk Cartons Can Help Typhoon Victims | World Wide Waste | Business Insider ------------------------------------------------------ #Seaweed #Sustainability #BusinessInsider Business Insider tells you all you need to know about business, finance, tech, retail, and more. Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: https://www.businessinsider.com Insider Business on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessinsider Insider Business on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insiderbusiness Insider Business on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/businessinsider Insider Business on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Business_Insider/5319643143 Insider Business on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessinsider How To Make Plastic From Seaweed | World Wide Waste | Business Insider

Thin-plastic food wrappers make up half the garbage floating in our oceans, but they’re difficult to recycle. One company has invented a way to replace these plastics with seaweed. Now, it stands as a finalist for Tom Ford’s Plastic Innovation Prize worth more than $1 million. MORE WORLD WIDE WASTE VIDEOS: How To Make Bricks From Plastic Trash | World Wide Waste | Insider Business https://youtu.be/kB-_BBMCq1g How Millions Of Jeans Get Recycled Into New Pairs | World Wide Waste | Insider Business https://youtu.be/hV_-yJ6NiP8 How Used Hotel Soap Gets Recycled Into Brand New Bars | World Wide Waste | Insider Business https://youtu.be/6qJV34pcOaw ------------------------------------------------------ #Seaweed #WorldWideWaste #InsiderBusiness Business Insider tells you all you need to know about business, finance, tech, retail, and more. Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: https://www.businessinsider.com Insider Business on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessinsider Insider Business on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insiderbusiness Insider Business on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/businessinsider Insider Business on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Business_Insider/5319643143 Insider Business on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessinsider Can Indian Seaweed Replace Plastic? | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

A large-scale survey asked people exactly that. One use of recycled carbon dioxide stood out.

You could be sitting on one of them.

They’ll be happy to use it in plastics, but they have qualms about putting it into food and drinks.

Vodka, jet fuel, protein… according to a new clutch of carbon-to-value startups, these are just some of the things that can be manufactured from thin air

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Direct air capture (DAC) refers to a set of technologies that draw carbon dioxide out the air so it can be used or sequestered. There are several DAC technol...

Join the next AirMiners online event at http://conference.airminers.org/Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Inst...

An introduction to mining 1 trillion tons of CO2 from the air

The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE develops breakthrough technologies to convert CO₂ emissions into usable products.

Ecovative Design, a company in Green Island, NY, turns agricultural waste and mushroom fibers into a styrofoam packaging replacement.

Psilocybin therapy is on the brink of becoming legally available in the US. But access isn’t guaranteed. There’s a struggle playing out right now between pha...

A biotech company in upstate New York designs products made from the root structures of mushrooms. It takes about a week to grow their alternative to styrofo...

Mycelium, derived from fungus, can make everything from building bricks to meat alternatives.

Our Mushroom® Packaging is fully biodegradable in around 45 days. It can be added to food waste, broken down and dispersed in the garden, even mixed with seeds to grow wild flowers. When kept in dry conditions, it has a shelf life of 30 years.

Ikea is looking at using biodegradable fungi packaging as part of its efforts to reduce waste.

The world recognizes that climate change is an urgent and important issue. Despite this, our actions are still woefully insufficient to address the problem. ...

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Your closet is likely full of all kinds of materials -- leather, cotton, nylon and polyester, to name a few -- that contribute to fashion's sustainability crisis. Biomaterials investigator Dan Widmaier explains how we could look to nature for sustainable replacements for these much-used materials and introduces a leather alternative made from mushrooms that looks great and doesn't harm the environment. "We can make fashion sustainable, and we're going to do it with science," Widmaier says.

When you think of North American cuisine, do Indigenous foods come to mind? Chef Sean Sherman serves up an essential history lesson that explains the absence...