Invasive Seaweed Turned Into Fuel and Fertilizer
NEWS May 12, 2020 | Original story from the University of Bath.
UK researchers have developed a cheap and simple way of creating biofuel and fertiliser from seaweed, whilst removing plastic from the oceans and cleaning up tourist beaches in the Caribbean and Central America.
Millions of tonnes of rotting seaweed washes up on beaches of Mexico, the Caribbean and elsewhere every year.
Partly fuelled by fertilisers washing into the sea from farming in the Americas, the foul-smelling Sargassum seaweed devastates the tourism industry and harms fisheries and ocean ecosystems.
A research team, led by the University of Exeter and the University of Bath, has developed a cheap and simple way to pre-process seaweed before making bulk chemicals and biofuels from it.
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