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The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic

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JUNE 18, 2025

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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

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JULY 14, 2025

The bacteria also recycle nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen by breaking down organic material. Vibrio live freely in the water, concentrate in sediment and on plastics, and colonize the surfaces and guts of shellfish, fish and zooplankton. For those organisms, the bacteria can often be harmless or even beneficial.

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Uncovering the exposome: An emerging field casts a wide net

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JULY 21, 2025

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

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How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored

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JULY 28, 2025

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Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers

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JUNE 16, 2025

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The USDA announced the cancellation of $148M in ‘woke’ grants. Then it went dark.

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AUGUST 1, 2025

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12 exotic bacteria found to passively collect rare earth elements from wastewater

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This allows these rare elements, for which demand is steadily growing, to be collected from wastewater from mining, metallurgy, and the recycling of e-waste, and reused. Circular economy The advantages of moving from a wasteful ‘linear’ economy to a ‘circular’ economy, where all resources are recycled and reused, are obvious.

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White House OSTP Outlines Goals for U.S. Biotechnology and Manufacturing

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APRIL 3, 2023

Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing: Harnessing Research and Development to Further Societal Goals. Hutton As reported in our March 30, 2023, blog item , on March 22, 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a new report, Bold Goals for U.S. The report states that bold goals for the U.S.

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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

A newly released paper in Nature Biotechnology offers the first report of high-production-rate, high-selectivity, and industrially scalable production of acetone and IPA through fermentation. As the climate crisis intensifies, researchers are seeking alternative means to lessen the climate impact of producing these commodities.

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Buffer recycling would cut biopharma water consumption

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Read the full story from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Reusing buffers in downstream operations would help biopharmaceutical manufacturers significantly reduce water consumption, making production more sustainable and cost efficient according to new analysis.

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How waste-eating bacteria digest complex carbons

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This new information could potentially lead to novel biotechnology platforms that harness the bacteria to help recycle plastic waste. For the first time, researchers mapped the metabolic mechanisms in a Comamonas bacterium that digests chemicals from plastic and plant waste.

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Scientists discover microbes in the Alps and Arctic that can digest plastic at low temperatures

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MAY 9, 2023

This ability, if upscaled to an industrial scale, will save money and energy during recycling Finding, cultivating, and bioengineering organisms that can digest plastic not only aids in the removal of pollution, but is now also big business.

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GAO Publishes Science & Tech Spotlight on Biorecycling of Plastics

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Biological recycling, or biorecycling, is an emerging technology that uses microbes, such as bacteria or fungi, to break down plastic into its basic components for reuse. Emerging recycling methods could help mitigate the negative health effects of incinerating plastic waste; and. Bergeson and Carla N. On November 21, 2022, the U.S.

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Federal Agencies Announce Investments and Resources to Advance National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

As reported in our September 13, 2022, blog item , on September 12, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) creating a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative “that will ensure we can make in the United States all that we invent in the United States.” forest resources. In addition, the U.S.

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The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic

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12 exotic bacteria found to passively collect rare earth elements from wastewater

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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Buffer recycling would cut biopharma water consumption

How waste-eating bacteria digest complex carbons

Scientists discover microbes in the Alps and Arctic that can digest plastic at low temperatures

GAO Publishes Science & Tech Spotlight on Biorecycling of Plastics

Federal Agencies Announce Investments and Resources to Advance National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative

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