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News and calendar
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Toolkit Helps European Regions Towards Bio-Economy
- How can regions successfully convert residual streams from the food and agriculture industry into food, animal feed, chemicals, materials or energy? A... -
Cleaner Turf Production with Biobased Biodegradable Nets
- Turf producers use underground nets to support grass growth. Removing the nets from fully grown turf is difficult, so the material often remains in... -
Farm of the Future at Euronews
- Farm to Fork is the EU Commission’s strategy to make the European food system and agriculture more sustainable. In a series of reports, Euronews... -
A longer National Week without Meat would meet with approval
- During the Dutch National Week without Meat (8-14 March), we ‘must’ make do without animal proteins. How do we make up for the lack of... -
Getting on well with circular agriculture? Key performance indicators will soon make your progress measurable
- In a new collaboration, Wageningen University & Research, the Louis Bolk Institute and the consultancy firm Boerenverstand are developing a system... -
New platform to improve European cooperation on food safety
- It sounds sustainable: tableware made of melamine with bamboo and maize added as innovative raw materials. But when this tableware turns out to be... -
Leading role for electricity in reducing petroleum use
- Driving, cycling, cooking and even heating, electricity is used for an increasing number of purposes. Scientists are now investigating whether... -
Recycled plastics qualify as feedstock, but the leap forward is still ahead
- The current quality of recycled plastic bottles and flacons (PE and PP) is well-suited for various non-food applications. This was concluded from... -
Building blocks for a biobased future
- Wageningen chemists and chemical technologists are collaborating to develop new catalysts to transform bio-resources into materials with greater... -
Circular behaviour is easier if it is supported by policy
- Yes, I was one of them. One of those people with the New Years’ resolution to live more sustainably. Last year I calculated my personal Earth...