Naturbeads Ltd

Seventy years ago, Churchill famously said: 'We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.' Cultured meat is a healthier (less antibiotics), more ethical (better animal welfare), more efficient (better use of land) and sustainable way to produce meat ...

Plastic pollution on land and in the oceans has reached alarming levels, affecting the whole ecosystem, with plastic debris found everywhere, from the deepest reaches of the oceans to Mount Everest, in animals' stomachs and in human placentas (Environmental International 2021). Microplastics, or plastic particles smaller than 5mm, are a particularly insid...

For tens of thousands of year humans relied on nature to provide them with clothes and materials for shelter and other uses. This changed in the first half of the 20th century as organic chemistry developed methods to create new synthetic fibers and materials. Plastic rapidly replaced natural fibers for clothing and wood for furniture and many other every...

Enzymes are widely used as biocatalysts because they offer high yields and purity, shorter synthetic production pathways, environmentally friendly products and reduced waste and co-products. In order to reduce costs of downstream processing, improve separation and stability towards different organic solvents in a wide range of temperatures, enzymes are of...

Plastic microbeads have risen to the headlines following bans in UK, US, Canada and other countries, for their use in rinse-off cosmetic products. These bans are good news for consumers and the environment, with more and more evidence of the presence of plastic beads in humans, plants, animals and as far away as the Arctic. However, the bans have given th...

The scourge of ocean plastic pollution has become a matter of public concern, driven by striking images such as that of a seahorse floating attached a cotton bud, or the video of a turtle with a straw in its nostril. Laura Parker from the National Geographic, June 2018 issue, says 'unlike climate change, there are no ocean trash deniers'. Earlier in 2018,...