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The fishing industry in the EU and elsewhere produces an increasing mass of negative value crustacean shell waste (>6 MTPA), whose current disposal in landfills results in significant costs and risks to human health as well as to the environment. While in Asia small amounts of shrimp waste are processed to chitosan, the high CaCO3 content of EU crab shell waste has prevented cost effective convers ...

The Partnership is led by the University of Ulster supported by Dundalk Institute of Technology, Skillset and Adam Smith College, which has established a consortium of Scottish delivery partners. The partnership is supported by the Nerve Centre and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.The partners have identified a range of activities which will be delivered over a three year period across the eli ...