Country Life: A taste of New Zealand's emerging seaweed industry
As part of Aotearoa's first seaweed festival, Pacific Harvest hosted a seaweed tasting event where people could sample ...
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Scientists may have found the key to unlocking an ultra-futuristic food source: 'More feasible than ever'
Seaweed is an impressively versatile material, able to serve as everything from food to fertilizer, bioplastic packaging, animal feed, biofuel, and more. Nutritionally, according to the Harvard T ...
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How seaweed could replace plastic bags and packaging
An curved arrow pointing right. A California startup makes compostable replacements for thin-film plastic out of seaweed. The company sources raw materials from seaweed farms, which can provide ...
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Unlocking the potential of seaweed farming as a nature-positive sector
An Irish Seaweed Association has been set up to providing a voice for ocean farmers — and with more than 7,500km of coastline ...
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Bioplastics innovation sparks debate in packaging industry
In addition to traditional bioplastics, new materials derived from seaweed, algae, and cornstarch are entering the market. These polymers, though not chemically modified like conventional plastics ...
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How one California startup wants to bring an innovative solution to the plastic bag problem
Several trials later, her first bioplastic prototypes were born ... is producing a plastic alternative out of seaweed. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) “They were ugly,” she said, and only ...