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The project, led by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at Bath, is a collaboration between the Universities of Bath and Oxford, the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s Sustainability Partnership (National Composites Centre, a

The £17M Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies was officially launched at its new base in the Carriage Works in Swindon last week.

An affordable lab system that uses grass blades to turn cells into cultured meat has been developed at the University of Bath.

For the past few weeks, we’ve been doing an overview of the upcoming biomass innovation projects in the UK, with a range of materials being harnessed for their potential efficacy as biomass feedstocks. Funding under the government’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme was split into two lots, with the first

Of £20m granted to Swindon Borough Council for seven regeneration projects for the town centre, the largest amount – £6m – will be spent on enabling the Kimmerfields development. The work on the site – which will have a new headquarters tower for finance company Zurich – is the most expensive of all the schemes put forward by the council and its Towns Fund Board, a report reveals. The cheapest is the plan to create a new marketplace in the town centre – although that still nee...

Date Time Major academic-industry collaboration to tackle global challenges in sustainability The University of Oxford joins a major new collaboration with academia and industry to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero carbon emissions. The Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST) is a unique £17m facility hosted by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) that will accelerate the translation of sustainabl...

Hungarys MOL Adopts Low-Carbon Strategy Feb 24, 2021 11:50:am Summary by: William Powell Hungarian energy company MOL has updated its 2016 strategy for 2030 and beyond with a focus on decarbonisation and sustainability but also profits, it said February 24. It conceded that although it has "taken important strategic steps in the right direction over the past five years," it is aware of the "unprecedente... Posted in:

Source: © Ander Gillnea/AFP/Getty Images The Covid-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer must be stored at -70°C until the day it is used, when it can be stored in a normal fridge As the world celebrates the arrival of vaccines to protect against Covid-19, the logistics of distributing them is under the spotlight as never before. It’s a delicate balancing act – both heat and excessive cold damage vaccines. Keeping vaccines at just the right temperature to ensure they’re effective...

Scientists make sustainable polymer from sugars in wood The researchers from Baths Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies in the UK have made a sustainable polymer using the second most abundant sugar in nature, xylose. January 18, 2021   Canadian Plastics Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it’s possible that plastics might. Scientists from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies, in Bath, Somerset, UK, have made a sustai...

January 11, 2021 Scientists from the University of Bath in the UK have made a sustainable polymer using the second most abundant sugar in nature, xylose. The researchers, from the University’s Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies, report that the polymer, from the polyether family, has a variety of applications including packaging and healthcare. They claim that the material’s… TO CONTINUE READING, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE OR LOGIN