
How seaweed is surprisingly useful
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can really help the planet.
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet. We hear how a local business in Barbados is using sargassum seaweed to power cars, providing an eco-friendly alternative for islanders and potentially helping to clear the beaches of smelly seaweed. Also we visit the European company aiming to replace single-use plastics with seaweed-based packaging. And how feeding seaweed to cattle can dramatically cut emissions of planet-warming methane gas.
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(Image: A person holding clumps of dulse seaweed in Canada, James MacDonald/Bloomberg)
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