New rules to curb litter from the most commonly found single-use plastics on our beaches were adopted today in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee. MEPs voted to address the 10 single-use plastics that are most often found washed up or still in the sea. As part of the draft rules, […]
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Listen to the AgroCycle Kids Video illustrating how waste can be valorised in a circular bioeconomy: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle!
The BIOREG project (www.bioreg.eu) aims to set up a multi-stakeholder’s platform in order to transfer success factors and solutions. The first collaborative platform dedicated to end-of-life woods is now operational and accessible. This internet platform is currently being developed within the framework of the European BIOREG program (2017-2019). The platform will […]
Have a look at the new video on Agrifood Waste Valorisation in a circular economy within the AgroCycle project of Horizon2020.
According to the study by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London (UK): State of the World’s Fungi 2018 report, fungi can speed up the breakdown of plastic waste and are able to clean up the envirenment. They are also optimal feedstock for biofuels, building materials and other uses.
A Trinomics led consortium, on behalf of The European Commission, will be delivering conferences in Brussels on biofuels (24 October) and bioenergy (25 October) research, development and technologies. The free to attend conferences will provide insights into the impacts of R&D funded through the EU Framework Programmes for Research and […]
Opportunities under the EU LIFE programme – ECOMONDO 2018, 8 November 2018, Rimini, Italy. Organized by: Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) The session will cover: the main features of the LIFE programme: funds available, topics covered by the financing scheme, how to apply for funding the LIFE Programme […]
SMi’s eagerly awaited Energy from Waste conference will bring together international waste management operators, developers, bankers, private equity financiers, technology providers and industrial end users for two days of intensive networking, discussing developments that are needed in technology, financing and infrastructure to ensure the solutions are available to fast track […]
Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now the researchers have developed a roadmap, as it were, for industrial cellulose gasoline. Read more here.