SYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton’s clean-tech sector received a boost Tuesday with the announcement of $2 million in federal funding. The Verschuren Centre at ...
From left, Sydney-Victoria MP Jaime Battiste, Dispersa founder and CEO Nivatha Balendra, Gudie Hutchings, minister of Rural Economic Development and minister responsible for ACOA, Cotex Technologies chief products officer Krilen Ramanaidu, Cape Breton-Canso MP Mike Kelloway, and Verschuren Centre president and CEO Beth Mason attend Tuesday's funding announcement at Cape Breton University.
“We need to continue to move fast and we need to continue to think big,” she said, adding that “displacing everything in the petrochemical chain with bio-based products” is key to feeding the world sustainably and mitigating climate change. “The importance is that biopolymers degrade so they will reduce microplastic accumulation in the soil from the release of controlled-release fertilizers, and we can deliver nutrition with precision to the plants so that less nitrogen is used in the application,” he said.
“Conventional surfactants, which are what we’re looking to replace, are derived from palm and petroleum, and so what we’re doing at Dispersa is creating a more circular approach that is instead relying on food waste around us to create the very same materials.”
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