By Jeremy Williams Last week I reviewed the book The Seaweed Revolution, which I very much enjoyed. It mentions a vast range of uses for seaweed, some in detail, some in passing. One that caught my eye was the use of seaweed as a building material. It only gets a couple of paragraphs, so I bookmarked it to go and […]
By Jeremy Williams I was on holiday on the South Coast this summer, and when I’m by the sea I like to read about it. This time I chose Vincent Doumeizel’s The Seaweed Revolution, which is a book I have been anticipating for some time. I expect ocean farming to be one of the big stories of this century, an […]
Wouter van Tol, head of sustainability at packaging maker DS Smith, is working with new seaweed-based materials to deliver more alternatives to today’s frequently unrecyclable food packaging. The London-based company’s North American unit recently announced an aggressive initiative to adopt seaweed-based fiber in its products. We discuss why it’s still hard to recycle even common forms of fiber packaging, like […]