With transformative opportunities in biological products and sustainable biofuels on the horizon, the agritech industry needs to work together to achieve commercial success and realise environmental advantages.
Lizzie Thomas presents her case for designing improved, sustainable drug delivery product design. Currently, the approach is dominated at the outset by patient-centricity. This focus means that wider, more long-term implications simply aren’t considered early enough.
Founders of early-stage start-ups are passionate, driven and optimistic. So, as they embark on the mission to sell their vision, they should accentuate the positive and keep negative thoughts of risk to the back of their mind, right? Wrong.
‘Turning trash into cash’ provides opportunity for companies to gain first-mover advantage. We outline a method that be considered as a carbon capture method – but is more likely to yield valuable bio-derived compounds.
Over a series of discussions with clients on sustainability we’ve been building a quick and accessible modelling tool to model the carbon cost implications of typical high-volume products across a variety of markets.