Plastics made from algae cultivated by industrial CO2

摘要

MATERIALS Spanish research institute Aimplas, and 14 European partners, have launched a project that aims to cultivate microalgae in photobioreac-tors, which need only sunlight and industrial CO2 emissions, to produce different products for the chemical industry. The European Commission financed project, Bisigodos, is a 7th Framework Programme ini- tiative that aims to select and cultivate new varieties of these organisms to produce artificial fuel and then commercialise the research through the company Biofuel Systems in Alicante, Spain.