The shells of crustaceans and wood waste such as branches pruned from trees usually end up in landfills. These waste materials are given a new lease of life to become nutritional supplements and ...

The yield of this method was similar to the traditional way of extracting this drug, however, it was much more economically viable, as the cost of crustacean shell waste in Singapore is $100 ...

Found in crustacean shells, chitin is a useful natural polymer. Now, scientists have developed a fruit waste-based fermentation process for getting it out of those shells – and the technique ...

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Cellulose and chitin are the world's first- and second-most common biopolymers, found in plants and crustacean shells (among other places) respectively. Georgia Tech scientists have now devised a ...

Project researcher Hani Chbib told Reuters Egypt imports some 3,500 metric tons of shrimp, and is left with 1,000 metric tons of shrimp shell waste. So the project could help alleviate waste and ...

UMass Lowell won funding for its proposal to create safer, effective and nontoxic fertilizer from an abundant resource – in this case, the shell waste produced by processing crustaceans such as crabs, ...

Surf and Earth: How prawn shopping bags could save the planet Date: January 10, 2017 Source: University of Nottingham Summary: Bioengineers are trialing how to use shrimp shells to make ...