Ethical awards winner named

Eco entrepreneur BioRegional MiniMills, which uses straw to make paper, has won invention of the year at the Observer Ethical Awards.

The MiniMill provides a treatment to turn waste into energy and chemicals for use in papermaking. BioRegional has also secured private funding and a DTI grant to complete an industrial scale demonstration mill. An open day will be held in early 2008, when it will be possible to see the technology in action.