Carbon Kapture wins the Excellence Award for Environmental this year as it launched a process to convert ocean carbon to fertiliser via seaweed.

The company launched its first seaweed farm dedicated to ocean carbon sequestration, enabling customers to sponsor seaweed growth on ropes to facilitate the direct absorption of CO₂ from the sea.

The harvested seaweed is converted into biochar, a stable form of carbon that enriches soil quality and reduces the dependence on fertilisers.

Carbon Kapture has joined forces with shellfish farmers in Ireland to cultivate the seaweed.

Company Profile

Carbon Kapture is at the forefront of the battle against climate change, leveraging the rapid growth properties of seaweed to extract CO₂ from the marine and atmospheric environments, delivering outcomes that are 30 times more rapid than those achieved through reforestation. The company’s objective is to install 1 million metres of seaweed cultivation ropes by the end of 2024.

Carbon Kapture specialises in the cultivation of seaweed for CO₂ absorption, followed by carbon sequestration. The firm has embarked on a project with the potential to eclipse the carbon absorption capabilities of the world’s dwindling rainforests. The challenge with trees as a carbon sink is their delayed efficacy in carbon sequestration, taking anywhere from 10 to 40 years to reach their potential. Focusing solely on afforestation will fall short of meeting the pressing climate deadlines, necessitating a superior solution.

Carbon Kapture merges one of the most potent natural CO₂ absorbers with advanced technology engineered to permanently sequester carbon. The solution provides instantaneous CO₂ uptake, operating at a velocity 30 times greater than that of trees, offering an annually replicable cycle, and facilitating the capture of carbon for secure underground storage.

Contact Details

Carbon Kapture Ltd

Jolliffe House, 32 West Street, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1LD

United Kingdom

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