Waching daily May 1 2017

We modify starch, that's a biobased product.

So I think that puts us on the biobased side of things.

It's a waste product in the French fries industry.

I mean, how much more biobased can you get?

A few projects are the mussel crates, for instance.

We're trying to repair the mussel banks in the Wadden Sea.

And on the other hand, we grow mussels in fresh water...

to combat the blue-green algae.

That we finally get better known for these kinds of products.

It's still hard to get on the market, so this theme will help...

raise awareness that we have to start looking at products in a different way.

The threats are the price and the economy-of-scale.

People say it's too expensive.

The amount of CO2 we seriously cut down on is of no value at all.

So before you know it, you're looking for a few unique things.

Like the mussel crates, it's good that they can disappear.

But if we take packaging, for instance, people are only interested in the price.

But not in the end-of-life advantages.

One of my tips and tricks would be: Research the options for packaging.

What is the end-of-life advantage? Ultimately, it's all about...

the amount of material that we use in comparison to regular plastics.

Ours can be fermented or burnt or whatever.

And regular plastic can be recycled, but you'll still need to clean it up.

So I'd like to know what the advantages are...

of using short-lived plastics when it comes to packaging.

We mainly focus on starch-based materials.

That's the product we started off with and that we have the most know-how of.

And we have a fairly unique, not unique, position with it in the world.

Applications galore, of course.

In a hospital you could look at...

waste materials caught from a body going to a fermenter.

You can look in the sea, materials disappear in sea water.

In packaging, you name it.

You could replace all plastics with it. Whether it's useful, is another question.

I don't picture myself building a computer with starch-based plastics.

Why would you? Regular plastic's LCA...

is just as good as that of bioplastics in the recycling stream.

So you have to focus on the strength of the material disappearing.

Relevance? Actually, we still have to find it.

Because we're still searching for what would be best to use.

The mussel crate disappears and that's added-value.

And that it can disappear in water is definitely added-value.

Because nobody would consciously put plastic in water, anymore.

But packaging still has to find its spot.

I think it has added-value for society.

In the end, we want to use as little oil as possible to make other products.

I personally question whether we must use oil-based materials for packaging.

You can use cardboard or a bioplastic.

So why use an oil-based product for a short-lived item?

Oil-based products last between 500 and 1000 years.

But we use it for 14 days to 3 weeks. I think that is really overdoing it.

It's different in the paper industry. Toilet paper disappears in no time.

But you wouldn't use toilet paper to produce money or passports.

They differentiate much better, but they don't in packaging yet.

So I'd say: Try to use short-lived materials...

in such a way they're made of bioplastics or compostable bioplastics.

For more infomation >> Company video - Rodenburg Biopolymers - Duration: 5:38.

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Company video - Rotterzwam - Duration: 4:58.

In a nutshell, Rotterzwam cultivates mushrooms...

on a residual or waste stream of coffee grounds from the city.

We have a number of biobased projects here.

One is recycling coffee grounds and saving it from the incinerator...

by growing food on it, but the mushrooms aren't an end point.

The mycelium, the mushroom's root system, produces enzymes.

It's like an inverted stomach.

What we do in our stomach, the mushroom does externally...

by secreting enzymes that break down its environment.

The enzymes are present in the substrate and we can wash them out...

and use them as input for biofermentation installations...

biofuels and bioplastics.

But in the case of biofermentation process...

there are lots of opportunities to be investigated.

After we've washed out the enzymes, the worms get cracking.

They add a lot of value because worms are extraordinary animals.

They eat 24 hours a day and they eat their own weight in this time.

We have a worm farm that can process 2 kilos of organic waste a day...

and turn it into nutrient-rich material...

which is so special that it can be directly absorbed by plant roots.

In contrast to regular feed which requires a bacterial intervention...

to turn it into amino acids.

We don't speak of coffee zests and coffee as a fertilizer but as a nutrient.

Coffee is a universal base for fungi.

You can see it when you leave coffee in the machine for too long.

A green fungus will grow on it and that's the principle we use.

So a rich soil, but we need to add a few ingredients to get the balance right.

Moisture among others, because obviously mushrooms need moisture.

And some ground chalk to neutralize the pH.

We make different kinds of compost. When we've extracted the enzymes...

we compost part of it with worms.

We use compost worms to make worm tea and a worm compost.

And we dry part of it to give away as a kind of soil enhancer.

We compare the production of mushrooms with that of meat.

For the following reason:

a cow needs 25 kilos of feed to produce one kilo of meat.

That's an inefficient conversion.

On top of that, the cow uses nutrients such as soya and corn...

which we humans also consume.

Compacting 25 kilos into one kilo is not an efficient conversion.

However, a mushroom can produce one kilo fruit bodies...

out of one kilo of dry matter.

So it runs one-on-one, if you like, and in addition to this it grows on waste.

So it doesn't compete with the human food chain.

On top of this, mushrooms are almost comparable to meat...

at a molecular and nutrient level. If you switch to mushrooms completely...

you must supplement your diet with proteins.

These are the two reasons why we compare mushrooms to meat.

I can certainly give you tips and tricks for the group assignment Biobased City.

Our business case is based on Gunter Pauli's range of ideas.

He wrote a book called The Blue Economy...

in which he describes 100 business cases...

of local things to do with waste.

Cultivating mushrooms on coffee grounds is one, but there 99 other cases.

There are many residual streams in the city...

which the students can use for this assignment...

and create value from waste, because there is no such thing as waste.

For more infomation >> Company video - Rotterzwam - Duration: 4:58.

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Company video - Evides - Duration: 6:26.

Evides is a drinking water company.

And within the drinking water company we also have Evides Industrial Water.

The Industrial Water department supplies the industry with water.

In all kinds of qualities, but we also purify industrial waste water.

We're starting to think that waste water shouldn't be seen as waste...

but as a source of all kinds of compounds that it contains.

In the first place, we can reuse the water itself.

But you can also think of energy and nutrients.

Regaining nutrients is the future.

So not seeing waste water as waste, but as a source of compounds.

In practice, we already reuse sewage water in Zeelandic Flanders.

Some of the water is upgraded to demi-water, a high quality water...

for the chemical industry, in this case.

We're also running several research projects. The main one is called RINEW.

In the end, this project should be implemented in Rotterdam.

In areas that used to have a port function but are now being redeveloped.

We want to see whether we can reuse waste water as water in these areas.

As a source of energy and raw materials such as nutrients and cellulose.

The opportunities are clear.

Raw materials are becoming depleted, just think of the phosphate reserves.

We've been using them in vast amounts for years...

which means that the reserves are diminishing.

And the predictions are that the mineable phosphate reserves in the world...

will become so depleted in the next 50 to 100 years...

that phosphate will become very expensive.

So what makes more sense than extracting phosphate from water...

and reusing it as a nutrient in the agricultural sector, for instance?

The main threat I see is that it takes a long time...

for sustainability to earn enough to repay itself.

And in this world it's still the case that short-term thinking...

and therefore unsustainable solutions are cheaper on a short-term basis.

And we push the accompanying costs out ahead of us.

Because the problems such as the greenhouse effect and pollution...

and all those costs won't hit us until later.

That we can't recover the costs of a biobased economy in the short-term...

is currently the main threat to its further development.

Indeed, we close the chain for more components, starting with water.

If you want to close that chain you must make water that is of a high quality...

and hygienically reliable. Generally, we do this with membrane filtration.

Think of ultra filtration, nano filtration or even reversed osmosis...

to produce demi-water which is an important raw material for the industry.

Then there are the nutrients and phosphate in particular.

That is topical as we're faced with a looming shortage of phosphate.

And because phosphate is relatively easy to regain.

But we're also looking at other nutrients such as nitrogen...

which we're currently destroying for the most part.

While we need to develop the technology to start regaining it...

and not waste energy on making artificial fertilizers in the chemical industry.

Besides water, nutrients and raw materials...

you could also think about energy.

It's strange to think that we purify waste water with a high energy input.

We air it and by airing it we activate bacteria...

that break down any waste in the waste water.

But in actual fact, this waste represents energy...

and it should be a source of energy instead of using energy to destroy it.

Another example of profit from waste water is the production of bioplastics.

These developments are still at a very early stage.

But with bioplastics we can look to replace...

the raw material that is normally used for plastics, which is oil.

And indirectly this has the effect of regaining energy.

It's part of our research, but I don't have any concrete answers yet.

If we want to treat water anaerobically, we can regain energy from it.

We can easily calculate how much energy that is.

And how much energy we'd save by not airing it anymore.

What is still unclear is the amount of energy required for pre-treatment.

Exactly how much energy that is, isn't crystal clear yet.

For more infomation >> Company video - Evides - Duration: 6:26.

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Company video - Yara - Duration: 3:26.

Yara Sluiskil produces mineral fertilizers.

Mineral fertilizers are made of natural gas and air.

The natural gas provides hydrogen and the air provides nitrogen.

Hydrogen and nitrogen make ammonia.

When you burn ammonia you get nitric acid.

Nitric acid and ammonia make ammonium nitrate.

In all these processes we need water.

Yara buys 500 million cubic meters of water.

300,000 cubic meters leaves the factory at one end.

And 250,000 goes out the other end of the factory.

These process waters contain nitrogen...

which we try to recuperate with the aid of algae.

We're currently running two biobased-related projects.

One is cultivating Elephant Grass on polluted soil.

We try to use Elephant Grass for its fibres.

And to see whether it has a purifying effect.

The other project is the cultivation of algae.

To regain the rest streams out of our process water with the aid of algae.

The opportunities for biobased with the aid of algae...

are to tackle the growing demand for food in the world.

Algae can play a supportive role in providing food for the world.

The threats to biobased:

When you want to use algae to purify processes...

you're faced with an instable cultivation of algae throughout the year.

A tip I can give you is: How can you use algae as food for human beings...

in such a way that it's appealing to eat algae?

You can cultivate algae...

if the water contains sufficient nitrogen, phosphate and carbon.

We've chosen for an open raceway as it's cheaper and more robust...

and easier to use.

The algae cultivation in open ponds is stable, in our case.

The sales potential for our algae is indeed the mineral fertilizers.

As added-value for the plants and as feed for chickens and cows.

For more infomation >> Company video - Yara - Duration: 3:26.

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Company video - Duurzaam organiseren - Duration: 4:26.

Duurzaam Organiseren is a foundation...

that demonstrably makes events sustainable...

on the basis of eight themes...

which we've drawn up in the Barometer Sustainable Events.

A certificate we've launched with the Dutch Certificate Institute.

Currently we're working on a biobased variation...

to organise these aspects in a clear and sustainable way.

Currently we're purifying waste water from mobile toilets at events.

We do this by collecting waste water from mobile toilets...

at a central location.

We purify it in a mobile and modular way.

We strain the waste water fractions back to 20 percent.

This is used to regain the raw materials and reuse them in different processes.

The opportunities around this theme and the biobased economy in general...

are due to the fact that an event is a short-cycle activity.

From a zero situation, an entire event is set up.

That gives us the chance to test innovations and developments.

So we're ready for the real world with real events.

The threats surrounding the theme and the biobased economy in general...

occur when a chain isn't correct.

Then your entire plan will fail and your expenses will increase...

and you'll lose raw materials.

So, if you produce it correctly but you throw it out with the waste...

you don't have a closed chain.

So that's the main threat: Not having a complete chain.

The greatest biobased challenge when it comes to events and festivals...

is achieving a closed chain of biobased disposables.

Currently, most festivals make use of normal plastics.

That has to do with the price and the options of processing it.

If we succeed in making the chain of collecting...

processing and recycling more available...

demand will rise, costs will go down and the chain will improve.

That's currently our greatest challenge.

The main developments from the events...

that we'd like to adopt in a biobased city...

is the use of a decentralised water purifying system.

With this you could shower and flush the toilet endlessly...

with water that you keep reusing.

Possibly with water that will have to go to a water purifying plant in the end.

You can replenish the loss with rain water, for instance...

making you independent of the water distribution system.

What is interesting for the foundation Duurzaam Organiseren...

is finding a solution to the waste water fraction I discussed earlier.

So, a concentrate full of raw materials...

such as nitrates, phosphates and nitrogen.

These can be purified by a waste water purification plant.

Phosphates, nitrates, nitrogen, remnants of medicines, anything you can find.

Could you find a good application for this?

Rather than it ending up at the waste water purifying plant again.

For more infomation >> Company video - Duurzaam organiseren - Duration: 4:26.

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Company video - VAM watertech - Duration: 7:29.

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Company video - DLV Plant - Duration: 7:30.

DLV Plant is an internationally operating consultancy and research company.

We focus on consultancy and performing research for the primary sector.

So, cultivation or real-life oriented research.

As the biobased economy...

has become increasingly important in the last 5 years...

we're increasingly focusing on not just eating plants or making cattle feed.

But more and more on applications for other means.

Such as ingredients for cosmetics and from that perspective...

we've started research trajectories concerning the biobased economy.

We run projects in the South West and particularly in Zeeland...

we're running a project called the biobased innovation garden.

Rusthoeve 2020. The Rusthoeve covers about 20 hectares...

where we do all kinds of practice oriented research.

One of them is the biobased innovation garden.

As part of this project, we're testing several crops...

on their usability in the biobased economy.

We don't do it for fun. We don't do it ourselves.

We do this on request of the SME, so I dare say that it's chain-driven.

We have a beautiful plot consisting of 64 smaller fields.

Where we cultivate and test about 50 different crops.

It's not just cultivating and testing, we also try to inspire.

We hope that by organising a number of events with the SME...

and with scientists, that we'll be able to acquire new ideas.

And that people will increasingly see the Rusthoeve as a hotspot...

where we physically grow and test crops for the biobased economy.

Within the theme of ingredients there are a lot of opportunities.

These are all opportunities of which we need to study the business case.

What is the revenue model for these kinds of things?

And we have to be aware of the fact that we have to take a long-term view.

But in the theme of ingredients...

there are huge opportunities for a number of compounds as colorants...

where we've discovered a few striking examples...

and also for biocide or natural crop protection applications.

I think that one of the threats...

is that you have to search for a crop you know little about.

Or you must look for a rest stream of a crop that we do know more of.

We're currently working with Tansy. This is it.

Both we and the University of Ghent are convinced...

that we can possibly develop a new insecticide with it.

But its cultivation, processing and marketing is unknown.

So, you're working on something and not even a tiny link in the chain...

is known. The entire chain is still unknown.

We're also working on an idea that involves cosmetics.

I'm talking about the common marigold.

But in this case, it's an existing technique...

and we know how to cultivate it.

So we have less hurdles to overcome.

A well-known example in the South West which is also interesting to work out...

is the use of onion waste.

In the South West of Holland lots of bulb onions are cultivated.

And in Zeeland, 80 percent of the bulb onions are processed.

That leaves waste and the waste stream contains a compound...

that we can use as a yellow colorant.

Now we have an existing waste stream, cultivation isn't an issue anymore...

you just have to extract the compound from the waste and get it to the market.

We try to use as many parts of the plant as possible.

It's not always possible, sometimes you're looking for a specific compound.

As I mentioned earlier...

we're trying to refine a specific compound from the Tansy.

There are crop applications of which the main goal...

is seed cultivation so we see whether we can offer the rest of the plant...

a future in the biobased economy.

At the moment, we're still looking at a broad range of ingredients.

The handicap this brings along is that you have to make choices.

You can't keep all the balls in the air, is one way of putting it.

We're still making a selection of which road to take and which to ignore.

But I can personally tell you that the road heading towards biocide...

so refining a compound or looking for a brand new application of a plant...

to be able to use it as an insecticide...

as a kind of insect repellent for plants...

is an application that we'll definitely be developing in the coming years.

Of course we look at the ideal cultivation conditions.

How can we best cultivate a plant?

And that has everything to do with how to cultivate the ingredients...

in the most profitable way. And it also has to do with the fact...

of how a grower can best treat such a crop within his cultivation plan.

My tip for the students is not to focus on the ingredients...

that are more than obvious, so don't think of cosmetics or pharmacy.

But think further down the road in ICT applications, for instance.

Think of things that presently and in the future...

will have a far greater influence on us in the future.

For more infomation >> Company video - DLV Plant - Duration: 7:30.

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Alone At Emily Dickinson's Desk | The Daily 360 | The New York Times - Duration: 1:06.

This is Emily Dickinson's bedroom.

And this is her desk.

I've heard that this can be a transformative experience.

I've heard that this can be a transformative experience. Writers have told me that they feel closer to Dickinson here.

Writers have told me that they feel closer to Dickinson here.

Some say that her presence helps them write.

What happens next might sound weird.

A calm comes over me.

And I do something I haven't done since elementary school.

I begin to compose a poem.

The thoughts spill out in order and do not step over each other.

I don't stop to think.

It feels thrilling.

It feels uncanny.

I don't stop writing until an hour passes and it's time to go.

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