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Soil is an important and often neglected element of the climate system. Soil... provides a range of ecosystem services, which are important for clean water, supporting biodiversity or for cycling nutrients and regulating climate.

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On the 20th of January, Pascal Durdu spoke about soil's undervalued capacity to store carbon and the role it can play to mitigate climate change. In this masterclass, Pascal explained that past and existing agricultural practices are depleting the soil and releasing 1 tonne of carbon emissions per hectare per year. However, if soil is treated right, emissions will turn to carbon capture: agro-ecology captures carbon at 2 tonnes CO2 per hectare per year.

On the 16th of February P&G members from the R&D teams from Brussels and Newcastle met at the InQbet campus for a day of all-important knowledge-sharing and 



 
Flamac specialises in helping you accelerate your materials R&D. As a world-class competency centre, they are experts in running customised high-throughput experiments and doing materials research. Flamac can act on a contractual basis as a research partner for industry players, they can act as an unbiased consultant, or partner up for strategic research with either industry players, universities, or other researchers.

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InQbet Campus News

January | February 2022

EVENTS

Masterclass

Startups in the 

Spotlight

Pascal Durdu, Sustainable Ecosystem Builder

Farming for Climate, The Beyonders

This month's focus: Sustainability

Company

What they do

InOpsys

Clewat

Virtual Reality training solutions

OneBonsai

Water purification for pharma and chemical plants

Removing plastic waste, ocean and waterway cleaning

BlueChem

Waste trade

Waste recycling marketplace

Banyan Nation

Vertically integrated plastic recycling

Innovation and sustainable Chemistry Incubator

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Interviews

Riikka Lämsä, Partner Operations Manager of Naava

In this interview, Riikka Lämsä explains how Naava brings nature into people's homes and offices, as well as Naava's connection with the InQbet campus.

Leentje Croes, Manager of BlueChem 

BlueChem is one of the InQbet campus' unique partners, in the sense that they are a partnering incubator. In this video Leentje Croes discusses how BlueChem works with the InQbet campus.


 
Impact Recycling has developed financially and technically feasible plastics recycling technology that separates post-consumer "mixed rigid plastic waste" to obtain results that are 98% pure. The post-consumer resin that they recover from mixed plastic waste is polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). Mixed rigid waste plastic is typically very hard to recycle (usually sorted by hand), and it is precisely this problem that Impact Recycling addresses with their BOSS  technology.

 
Clewat has a comprehensive approach to saving the seas: from oil spill cleanups to cleaning plastic waste from the ocean. Their method, moreover, is one of the few proven to actually work: versatile, environmentally friendly, and efficient on both macro-and microplastics, Clewat's cleaning device can collect up to 200 cubic meters of biomass per hour. In addition to being able to clean waterways from plastics, Clewat's Cleansweep-vessels also remove invasive plants and serve as a means to gather data on river/sea pollution.



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and exchanging ideas. In the spirit of Open Innovation, the P&G by Workero InQbet campus also hosted the 3rd edition of the Quickfire Tech Pitches series on this day. Nine highly innovative companies (CO2 Bioclean, Reath, Zoa Rental, Again, Curie Co, Holiferm, Pinwheel, Pawprint and recycl3R), pitched their ideas on sustainability, presenting solutions ranging from product formulations, circularity, to digital approaches.