Prof. Marcel Jansen's EU INTERREG Ireland-Wales funded Brainwaves project produced a short film for Europe Day.

Light intensity alters the phytoremediation potential of Lemna minor.

The NEWTRIENTS team will host a workshop in the Environmental Research Institute, UCC on Thursday 23rd January, 2020 entitled 'Resource Recovery from Dairy Industry Effluent'. The workshop will run from 10.00am to 3.45pm.

Recently, Analytics News (www.theanalyticsnews.com) outlined how the global alternative protein market is expected to grow to a market value of $17.9 bn and 9,787.4 KMT by 2025. 

Prof. Marcel Jansen, together with NEWTRIENTS graduate students Éamonn Walsh and Bianca Govi, attended the 5th International ICDRA Conference on Duckweed Research and Applications.

The Telegraph carried an interesting report by Anne Gulland about duckweed becoming a new superfood (June 13, 2019; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/13/duckweed-bane-pond-owners-set-become-superfood/).

The circular economy is a concept that promotes of use of materials derived from existing industrial processes, often termed "waste", to minimise the use of raw materials in production.

Universities are not just a place to educate the next generation of scientists, but with their research they also contribute to our understanding of the world around us and create technologies that found their way into our everyday live.

Culture Night 2018 was a busy event, as usual, at the School of BEES, UCC with about 450 members of the public passing through over the evening.

This year was the first year for Newtrients at the Ploughing Championships 2018 which took place in Screggan in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.

Minister John Halligan TD visited the School of BEES on Monday September 3, 2018

The duckweeds are a group of small aquatic plants that are a common sight in lakes and ponds around Ireland, and indeed the world.

Plastic waste has a range of different treatment options with varying environmental impacts. Recycling offers a way to reuse resources from plastic waste, and accounts for around 30% of plastic waste treatment in Europe. However, most recycled plastic cannot be reprocessed for the same application again because the recycling process itself impairs the properties of the material. 

Bioplastics - Where Do They Come From?

Today we can no longer imagine a world without plastic. Everything from the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the TV set we use in the evening is made from it and the possible applications seem endless.

Sustainable food production is essential if we wish to have the same quality and quantity of produce available to us in the future.