date:Jul 27, 2012
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One food waste derived material is already being produced and marketed commercially by university spin-off Starbon Technologies.
The material - branded Starbon is a patented class of bio-based mesoporous materials derived from polysaccharides. It has several specialist applications, such as for purifying water and cleaning up waste streams by removing harmful organics and heavy metals, and for recovery of precious metals through reductive adsorption.
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