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UCANR: Promoting economic prosperity in California
New project aims to use farm waste to fuel bioeconomy
  • Author: Lauren Biron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Author: Pamela S Kan-Rice
Published on: July 16, 2024
Almonds in the shell and split hulls lay on the orchard floor amid green leaves.
The BioCircular Valley project will build a publicly accessible database of available feedstocks from forest, farm and food processing byproducts to guide farmers, biomanufacturers and community leaders in the Northern San Joaquin Valley in building up a bioeconomy.

UC ANR to help create database, support technology for sustainable bioproducts and biofuels

In California's Northern San Joaquin Valley, crop leftovers such as almond shells, fruit peels and orchard trimmings can potentially be converted into sustainable bioproducts and biofuels – with the right technology. The philanthropy Schmidt Sciences' Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future, which supports replacing fossil feedstocks with renewable biomass sources, has awarded new funding to a...

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Public Value: UCANR: Promoting economic prosperity in California
Tags: BioCircular Valley (0), bioproducts (0), food waste (0), Gabe Youtsey (0), Innovation (0)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development
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