SeaGrown lands North Yorkshire carbon fund grant for seaweed processing project
What's the deal? SeaGrownDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Scarborough company growing seaweed and shellfish in the North Sea, has secured a grant from the York and North Yorkshire Combined AuthorityDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →'s Carbon Negative Challenge Fund. The money backs a new project, SeaSwell, which processes Yorkshire seaweed into biostimulants for crops and food ingredients.
What's the endgame? SeaGrown grows kelp on its Kelpedo units four miles off the Scarborough coast. SeaSwell aims to take that seaweed on land and turn it into products for the region's food and agricultural industries.
Why now? The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority wants to become England's first carbon-negative region by 2040. The grant has enabled SeaGrown to hire new staff, including trainee marine crew and scientists.
Who's saying what? Mayor David Skaith, who joined the team aboard its workboat Bright Blue, said the region can "go further than any other region in England and become the first carbon negative region by 2040." Co-founder and director Wave Crookes said the project "lets us take what we do every day in the North Sea and put it to good use on land."
The signal: Public carbon funds are increasingly channeling money into marine ventures that pair emissions cuts with local jobs. For SeaGrown, the backing turns years of offshore kelp growing into a commercial land-based pipeline aimed at cutting carbon and cleaning the ocean.
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