Seaweed farming is a rapidly expanding global industry. As a food resource, it has high nutritional value and doesn't need fertilizers to grow. Seaweed provides valuable habitats for marine life ...

In water, jelly bombs release a goo made from sodium alginate, which comes from a mineral-rich seaweed. LUSH's factory in Poole has around 800 members of staff. They made over 50 million items ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A California startup makes compostable replacements for thin-film plastic out of seaweed. The company sources raw materials from seaweed farms, which can provide ...

Processing wet seaweed to dry powder only takes 24 hours ... Technology Manager at FMC Biopolymer. “Visitors at our factory are surprised by how versatile an apparently simple alga can be.

How does it deal with all the salinity, in the water and the air? It turns out, seaweed has a little salt factory running within it that desalinates water by isolating the absorbed sodium in ...