{"id":55403,"date":"2018-08-08T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=55403"},"modified":"2018-08-05T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T11:20:36","slug":"recycled-forestry-waste-could-make-cosmetics-plastics-and-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/recycled-forestry-waste-could-make-cosmetics-plastics-and-biofuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycled Forestry Waste Could Make Cosmetics, Plastics and Biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rehap.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rehap<\/a>, an EU project, has found a way to produce 2,3-butanediol, a chemical building block used in a range of industrial applications, using sugars purified from forestry waste. The news demonstrates that \u2018recycled\u2019 sugars could be used as a viable alternative to sugars produced from standard processing methods. To develop the technology, Rehap is partnering with the investor Tecnalia and its portfolio company\u00a0Biosyncaucho.<\/p>\n<p>The chemical building block is produced in two steps. First, starch-like residues purified from poplar, a waste product of woody material, are broken down into its constituent sugars. Then, a fermentation process is used to synthesize 2,3-butanediol from these simple sugars.\u00a0The compound is usually produced using chemical hydrolysis, however, Rehap\u2019s approach gives a comparable product.<\/p>\n<p>2,3-butanediol has a wide range of uses, from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics, food additives, plastics and flowering agents, and the industry is estimated to be worth around \u20ac3.5M. In 2016, Novamont an Italian biotech, opened the first industrial plant in Italy dedicated to the eco-friendly production of the butanediol from genetically engineered E.coli in Italy. By using forestry waste, Rehap\u2019s technology could provide a more sustainable addition to existing methods\u00a0used to produce the chemical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehap, an EU project, has found a way to produce 2,3-butanediol, a chemical building block used in a range of industrial applications, using sugars purified from forestry waste. The news demonstrates that \u2018recycled\u2019 sugars could be used as a viable alternative to sugars produced from standard processing methods. To develop the technology, Rehap is partnering [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5796,6268,10408],"supplier":[14773,5420],"class_list":["post-55403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biotechnology","tag-forestry","tag-greenchemistry","supplier-biosyncaucho-tecnalia","supplier-tecnalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55403"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=55403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}