Talk about kelping the environment! Just Eat is testing compostable SEAWEED food boxes in drive to tackle plastic pollution in the takeaway sector Just Eat is testing Notpla’s seaweed-coated boxes with 11 restaurant partners The trial will last 3 weeks, during which Just Eat predicts as many as 30,000 plastic boxes will be prevented from … Read more
Feeding seaweed to cattle could reduce the amount of methane they produce by up to 80 per cent without affecting the flavour or quality of their meat, study finds. Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, trapping 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide and every time a cow burps or passes wind … Read more
A British firm is looking to help combat climate change by growing seaweed farms to remove carbon dioxide from the ocean while producing eco-friendly cattle feed. Planting more trees is often touted a solution to help extract greenhouse gases from the air — as photosynthesis uses up carbon dioxide to create new biomass. Yet trees … Read more
Shoes, banknotes and other surfaces could soon be able to clean themselves and prevent the build-up of bacteria thanks to a new natural seaweed compound. Unilever and Innova Partnerships are working on a product made from the organic compound Lactam, which can block bacteria and mould on everyday surfaces. The chemical giant says the new … Read more
Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic a year, half of which is single-use and About 26.8 million tons goes into landfills but more than eight million tons finds its way into the ocean. Now a UK startup is doing its part to break our global plastic addiction with an eco-friendly casing that can … Read more
A tiny capsule made from seaweed and packed with stem cells is being tested as a treatment for heart attack patients. Roughly the thickness of a grain of rice, the capsule is injected into the heart through an incision in the side of the chest. It is filled with up to 30,000 stem cells, which … Read more