NEW SCIENTIFIC RESULTS ON PACKAGING MATERIALS FROM SEAWEED CULTIVATION
The Land-based seaweed cultivation has a low impact on global warming, as shown by applied research from Bingen University.
Martin Müller from the Bingen University of Applied Sciences recently completed his master’s thesis within the Mak-Pak Scale-Up and NOVAFOODIES projects. The title of his thesis was Life Cycle Assessment of Land-Based Seaweed Cultivation for Packaging Material.
The main findings were that seaweed-based packaging produced from seaweed grown in a land-based system showed lower contributions to Global Warming, nonrenewable Primary Energy Depletion, and Eutrophication when compared to a bagasse alternative, while the Land-Use remained higher.
The figure shown is a flow diagram representing the system boundaries used for the land-based seaweed cultivation.
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