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Sustainability is the intersection of the environmental, economic, and social sectors. A goal USAID project in Myanmar is to institutionalize sustainability in all three sectors of the seafood industry, especially the aquaculture. Myanmar is currently in a state of political, economic, and environmental turmoil, and a sustainable seafood industry and aquaculture would benefit the nation. The plan involves restoring invaluable aquatic natural resources, improving the supply chain and governance of the seafood industry, and creating stability through food security and social equity. The effects that each of these central goals of the project have on the country are guided through the principles that the GPO, a World Bank organization, uses in assessing programs with the goal of sustainability. The effects will also be confirmed through the comparison to Vietnam, a nation that has experienced a rapid growth in their aquaculture. However, because of the lack of sufficient resources placed in the environmental sector, aquaculture is experiencing problems that are affecting the economic and social sectors. This proves that not only will the desired results create sustainability in the seafood industry of Myanmar, but also demonstrates the importance of finding a balance between each of the three sectors.

Gaseous and liquid anaerobic digestion (AD) streams, currently are at best used for electricity and heat production or simply spreading at the fields, respectively. However, electricity and heat are economically produced from other renewables and advanced fertilizers are needed to avoid leaching and boost nutrients capture. Hence, AD seeks new opportunities to support circular bioeconomy. The overall objective of this review is to present state-of-the-art resource recovery routes for upcycling the AD streams to reduce carbon footprint and formulate alternative products to increase sustainability. Technical barriers and integrated systems to upcycle AD streams through biological means are presented. New technologies and methods to capture CH4, CO2 and nutrients from the digested residual resources are presented, as a) methanotrophs cultivation to be used as feed ingredients; b) CO2 conversion and micro-nutrients capturing from microalgae to be valorized for a wide range of applications (e.g. biofuels, food and feed, fertilizers, bioactive compounds); c) CO2 transformation to biodegradable plastics precursors (e.g. Polybutylene succinate, Polyhydroxyalkanoate); d) digestate valorization for biochar production to support efficient agricultural usage. Moreover, the environmental factors and life cycle assessment perspectives of the novel biorefinery routes are revised highlighting the need for regionalized models or assessments that can reveal the most sustainable routes based on local conditions and requirements. Despite AD poses some positive characteristics related to environmental benefit and emissions reduction, the present wo

A PDF Power Point on BAL's "Unlocking the Sugars in seaweed to Produce Renewable Chemicals and Fuels".

The coast of Jiangsu Province in China e where Ulva prolifera has always been firstly spotted before developing into green tides e is uniquely characterized by a huge intertidal radial mudflat. Results showed that: (1) propagules of U. prolifera have been consistently present in seawater and sediments of this mudflat and varied with locations and seasons; (2) over 50,000 tons of fermented chicken manure have been applied annually from March to May in coastal animal aquaculture ponds and thereafter the waste water has been discharged into the radial mudflat intensifying eutrophication; and (3) freefloating U. prolifera could be stranded in any floating infrastructures in coastal waters including large scale Porphyra farming rafts. For a truly integrated management of the coastal zone, reduction in nutrient inputs, and control of the effluents of the coastal pond systems, are needed to control eutrophication and prevent green tides in the future.