A tech start-up has created a Bloomberg-style trading platform for organic waste to support Scottish companies with their net zero and sustainability goals.

Edinburgh-based Vaste is currently collaborating with computing science academics from Edinburgh College, on an Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) funded project, to prepare its software for launch to commercial buyers and sellers later this year.

Bio-based feedstocks, such as food processing side streams, waste oils and fats, agricultural residues, forestry by-products and co-products from the whisky and brewery industry, can be traded through the platform.

Many of the target buyers will use these materials as alternatives to petrochemical-derived feedstocks for energy generation, production of biofuels, chemical m

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