Replacing fossil-based plastics with bio-based and biodegradable plastics: it’s complicated, but it can be done!

28 October 2024 | Category: Circular & Climate-neutral

This is the sixth blog in a blog series on the Circular & Climate-neutral research programme. This programme (KB-34) focuses on research that contributes to circular and climate-positive production systems for food and non-food products. Fighting the fossil-based blanket. That’s the combative name for the research we’re conducting as part…

Safely using sludge thanks to larvae and seaweed

This is the fourth blog in a blog series on ‘Circular & Climate-neutral’. This research programme (KB-34) focuses on research that contributes simultaneously to circular and climate-positive food and non-food production systems. This blog was written by Katja van Dongen and Elise Hoek, researchers of Wageningen Food Safety Research. Sludge produced by the…

An economy that does not focus on growth

11 March 2024 | Category: Circular & Climate-neutral

This is the third blog in a blog series on ‘Circular & Climate-neutral’. This research programme (KB-34) focuses on research that contributes simultaneously to circular and climate-positive food and non-food production systems. This blog was written by Ezra Berkhout, Senior Sustainable Food Systems Researcher at Wageningen Department of Social Sciences….

How circular are biobased products?

8 February 2024 | Category: Biobased products, Circular & Climate-neutral

This is the second blog in a blog series on ‘Circular & Climate-neutral’. This research programme (KB-34) focuses on research that contributes simultaneously to circular and climate-positive food and non-food production systems. This blog is by Iris Vural Gürsel, Senior Scientist in Biobased Products at Wageningen Food & Biobased Research….