Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such
as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.
It is a family of products based around a honeycomb construction that employs various blends of recycled paper and cardboard waste as well
as bagasse (sugar cane waste), without need of nasty binders like formadehyde.
The plant parts left over after juice extraction, known
as bagasse, can be burned to produce steam and electricity.
Not exact matches
In another experiment,
bagasse was used
as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.
The treatments applied to
bagasse residue in this research give
as a result a new material rich in silicon, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium.
A biomaterial used
as a matrix for bone regeneration and made by a porous block of 1 cm height which was obtained from the beer
bagasse treatment.
As a result of a research study conducted by researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Technology of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and the Institute of Materials Science and the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), all in collaboration with the Mahou and Createch Co., have developed biocompatible materials to be used as support for bone regeneration from the food industry waste, mainly bagasse (residue) from beer brewin
As a result of a research study conducted by researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Technology of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and the Institute of Materials Science and the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), all in collaboration with the Mahou and Createch Co., have developed biocompatible materials to be used
as support for bone regeneration from the food industry waste, mainly bagasse (residue) from beer brewin
as support for bone regeneration from the food industry waste, mainly
bagasse (residue) from beer brewing.
Advanced biofuels can be derived from lignocellulosic feedstocks, such
as agricultural waste (e.g., corn stover, wheat straw, rice hulls), agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., corn fiber or sugar cane
bagasse), forestry and wood processing waste, the paper portion of municipal solid waste, or dedicated energy crops such
as switchgrass.
As i understand it, Brazil does not provide a favorable rate for electricity from
bagasse, so mills only invest in low pressure boilers.
Here's a promising project: Brazilian and Italian entrepreneurs are investing $ 114 million in a plan to convert
bagasse, a waste product from sugar cane, into pellets that can be burned
as fuel at your average, run - of - the - mill coal plant.
Now we've seen
bagasse used to make disposable cutlery and plates and even
as a biofuel for power stations, but this is the first time we've seen it used to make sturdy structures.
According to Designboom, «for every 10 tonnes of sugarcane crushed during the production process, nearly 3 tonnes of wet
bagasse remains
as residue.
In Taiwan, where the sugar industry is largely present in the local economy,
bagasse is usually thrown out
as trash or burned.»