The St. Lucia-based Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee as we speak stated the sub-regional grouping is devoted to selling sustainable options for environmental and growth challenges.
It famous particularly, the brown color and foul stench of sargassum algae that has periodically plagued seashores within the Caribbean lately, impacting sea life, tourism and livelihoods of those that work within the blue financial system.
The fee stated in protecting to this dedication, representatives of the OECS participated in a research tour with the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and AlgalTek, an algae manufacturing firm.
The OECS group was led by Ambassador Colin Murdoch of the OECS Mission in Geneva in addition to colleagues from OECS Fee in St Lucia.
The Paul Sherrer Institute (PSI) is a number one analysis institute for pure and engineering science, whereas AlgalTek specialises in algae merchandise, algae bioproducts, analysis, consulting, and growth.
“AlgalTek has an purpose to supply high-quality merchandise from algae biomass in an environmentally pleasant method, together with meals, cosmetics, packaging and different supplies,” the fee stated, noting that the primary exercise of the research tour was to determine a baseline for analysis and expertise, and assist members construct capability to help initiatives aimed toward efficient administration and use of sargassum algae.
“Members had the chance to see a number of the improvements in algae manufacturing and studied varied strategies to course of every part of sargassum algae that may be tailored for various makes use of – pigments, proteins, lipids, minerals, microfibrillanted cellulose, biofuels and bioplastics, residue and so forth,” the fee stated, including that they had been additionally in a position to discover trendy strategies to gather sargassum algae and mentioned prospects for export for the OECS area.
The OECS teams the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts-Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands.
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