About the research
About the research
Too often, companies take too little account of the environmental impact of their inventions when developing new products. Gwenny Thomassen (Universiteit Hasselt) wants to change this: she developed a model to calculate both the cost price and the impact on the environment for products based on micro-algae. In this way she wants to help companies to market affordable ecological products.
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