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23 March 202218 March 2022

Amazon forscht an biologisch abbaubarem Plastik

Der Online-Riese Amazon ist dem Bottle-Konsortium beigetreten und beteiligt sich damit an Forschungen zum chemischen Recycling sowie der Entwicklung umweltfreundlicher biologisch abbaubarer Kunststoffe

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Amazon and U.S. Department of Energy team up to cut plastic waste

Together, Amazon and the BOTTLE consortium will focus on reducing plastic pollution through innovation in materials and recycling

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Major Step Towards Zero Plastic Pollution Future

Plastics Europe Welcomes Global Plastics Agreement

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Gelungener Auftakt im globalen Kampf gegen Plastikmüll in der Umwelt

UN-Umweltversammlung einigt sich auf Ausarbeitung eines Abkommens

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Novel 3D wood fibre products tackle climate change and plastic challenges

Success story: 3D wood fibre production line for Valmet

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Neues Forschungsprojekt: Spargelschalen im Einsatz für eine kreislauforientierte Bioökonomie

Reststoffe aus beispielsweise der Landwirtschaft, der Futtermittelindustrie oder der industriellen Lebensmittelproduktion werden meist ungenutzt entsorgt. Dabei bieten sie sich als Füll- und Farbstoffe für Biowerkstoffe an

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UPM launches a new forest responsibility programme and biodiversity initiatives for sustainable forestry

UPM has published a new Forest Action Programme, which will run until 2030

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The LEGO® brick road to open science and biotechnology

The development of LEGO® building in science and biotechnology constitutes an emerging trend that aims to provide widely available professional-grade tools and systems to all researchers regardless of financial and technological constraints

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22 March 202216 March 2022

Ideenwettbewerb Bioökonomie 2022 gestartet

Auch in diesem Jahr werden wieder Preise für innovative Projekte und marktfähige Produktideen ausgelobt

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Yield10 Bioscience Announces Recent Advances in the Development of Camelina as a Production Platform for PHA Bioplastic

Field work completed during 2021 supports the Company’s decision to begin seed scale up of prototype PHA spring Camelina lines at acre-scale in 2022

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SABIC Collaborates With Kraton for Certified Renewable Butadiene to Produce Certified Renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers

SABIC’s certified renewable butadiene is derived from animal-free and palm oil-free ‘second generation’ renewable feedstock, such as tall oil, a by-product from the wood pulping process in the paper industry

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Ein einfacher Weg zur Herstellung “flexibler Diamanten”

Originelle Technik prognostiziert und steuert die geordnete Herstellung von starken und doch flexiblen Diamant-Nanofäden

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Discovered: An easier way to create “flexible diamonds”

As hard as diamond and as flexible as plastic, highly sought-after diamond nanothreads would be poised to revolutionize our world - if they weren’t so difficult to make

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Yangzhou Huitong Biological New Material setzt in seiner neuesten Anlage auf Sulzer Technologie zur Herstellung von Biokunststoffen

Sulzer liefert Technologie und Schlüsselkomponenten für die Anlage zur Herstellung von Kunststoffen aus Polymilchsäure (PLA) von Yangzhou Huitong Biological New Material in der Provinz Jiangsu, China. Die Produktionskapazität liegt bei 30'000 Tonnen pro Jahr

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TotalEnergies Begins Producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel At Its Normandy Platform

TotalEnergies' Normandy platform has successfully started production of sustainable aviation fuel1 (SAF). This new site complements the biojet fuel production capacities of La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Oudalle plant (Seine-Maritime)

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21 March 202215 March 2022

A unique green composite obtained from coconut fiber: Roads Can Be Built from Coconut

New international study found, that coconut fibers - due to their lightness and strength, can be used to cover autobahns, create interiors for railway cars and airplanes, as well as for domestic needs

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Preis des Zukunftsforums für Jose de Jesus Garcia Lima

Hervorragende Masterarbeit zeigt das Potenzial von "Mix-and-Match"-Ansätzen in Verbindung mit dem systematischen Vergleich von Stoffwechselwegen für das Metabolic Engineering

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Start of Assessment for the Commercialization of Ethylene, Propylene, Etc. Using Plant-derived Raw Materials

MCC and Toyota Tsusho will evaluate the manufacture of 100% plant-derived ethylene and its derivatives using bioethanol as a raw material, and the manufacture and sale of the first plant-derived propylene in Japan

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Birla Cellulose completes first pilot spin of lyocell fibres containing Nanollose’s microbial cellulose

This forest-friendly lyocell fibre marks a significant milestone in Birla Cellulose’s strategy for commercialization of this technology that uses a sustainable biomass

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Neue Open-Access-Datenbank für plastikabbauende Enzyme

Datenbank hat die derzeit bekannten Mikroorganismen zusammenfasst und soll zur Weiterentwicklung des Forschungsfeldes beitragen

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European Commission publishes REPowerEU communication

The document proposes an EU target to produce 35 billion cubic meters (bcm) of biomethane by 2030, which compares to 18bcm of biogas produced in 2020

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International Women’s Day. We celebrate all the women who are making the bioeconomy happen

The current global labour force participation rate for women is close to 46% (for men it is 71%), according to the International Labour Organisation

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Italy, Slovakia call to rethink CAP in light of Ukraine war

Slovakia and Italy have called for adjusting the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), including a policy postponement and a reconsideration of the EU’s green ambitions, amid fears of food insecurity caused by the war in Ukraine

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Italien und Slowakei wollen Agrarreform aus Angst vor Lebensmittelengpässen anpassen

Angesichts der Befürchtungen über mögliche Lebensmittelengpässe wegen des Kriegs in der Ukraine haben die Slowakei und Italien eine Anpassung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) sowie eine Verschiebung der EU-Agrarreform gefordert. Umweltziele für die Landwirtschaft sollten aus Sicht der Länder noch einmal überprüft werden

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18 March 202215 March 2022

LanzaTech NZ, Inc., a market-leading innovator in Carbon Capture & Transformation, to go public through business combination with AMCI Acquisition Corp. II

Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will be renamed LanzaTech Global, Inc. and its common stock is expected to be listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “LNZA”

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Mikroplastik im Meer: Ganzes Ausmaß noch immer nicht absehbar

Runder Tisch Meeresmüll entwickelt in neuem Themenpapier zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, wie der Verschmutzung des Meeres mit Mikroplastik vorgebeugt werden kann

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Sustainable Aviation Fuels II – Technological Landscape

In this second instalment in the SAF series, we will look at the current technological pathways used to produce SAF. We will also look at hydrogen-based technologies which are being actively researched

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Häuser aus Popcorn: Deutsche Forscher bringen geniale Stromspar-Idee

Forscher der Göttinger Universität haben ein innovatives Verfahren entwickelt, das die Herstellung von Dämmplatten aus Popcorngranulat ermöglicht

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A.P. Moller – Maersk engages in strategic partnerships across the globe to scale green methanol production by 2025

By the end of 2025 at the latest, Maersk will reach well beyond the green methanol needed for the first 12 green container vessels currently on order

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Cemvita Launches the Gold Hydrogen Program for Subsurface Biomanufacturing of Hydrogen

Supported by Energy Leaders, Initiative will Scale Production of Clean, Natural Gold Hydrogen to Meet Rising Global Demand

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Edible, biodegradable, anti-microbial plastic boasts higher tensile strength than petroleum-based plastic

Designed for use as food packaging, the material is produced by scientists at São Paulo State University from gelatin, clay and a nanoemulsion of black pepper essential oil

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Mogu launched the new biomaterial EPHEA, as part of Balenciaga’s Winter 2022 runway show

Setting a new standard in the alternative leather market, with a superior class of flexible mycelium materials for fashion

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17 March 202215 March 2022

Steel mill gases as raw material for green methanol

Fraunhofer UMSICHT researchers are already successfully operating a demonstration-scale plant for the production of methanol on the basis of hydrogen and gases that correspond to steel mill gases in their composition

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Hüttengase als Rohstoff für grünes Methanol

Fraunhofer-UMSICHT Forschern ist gelungen, die Herstellung von Methanol auf Basis von Wasserstoff und Gasen zu demonstrieren, die in ihrer Zusammensetzung Hüttengasen entsprechen

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John Crane Secures Partnership with NatureWorks in Development of New Biopolymer Manufacturing Facility

John Crane's polymer melt filtration system will help to produce NatureWorks' Ingeo™ PLA biopolymer, a process that transforms greenhouse gases and plant sugars into bioplastic

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DOE Grant to engineer bioplastic packaging that’s infinitely recyclable

This private-public effort is among seven supported by USD 13.4 million in DOE funding to reduce single-use plastics' carbon emissions and improve their recyclability through next-generation plastic technologies

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Nevi entwickelt neue Produkte aus einem uralten Naturmaterial: Fasziniert von Birkenrinde

Im ersten Schritt entstanden Türgriffe und Bodenbeläge, doch auch Anwendungen im Möbelbau sind mit dem High-End-Material denkbar

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Doppelgänger creates polystyrene substitute from plastic-eating mealworms

The material, called Chitofoam, is shock-absorbent, water-resistant and can be formed into cups, foam peanuts and other packaging, much like its fossil-based counterpart

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An exclusive interview with John Bell, EU Commission: ”The bioeconomy can support the European Green Deal on all its objectives”

In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, John Bell talks about the bioeconomy strategy 10 years after its first launch and the ecological transition at EU level

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The Green deal is dead, long live the Green deal

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already prompted changes in European energy policy. That needs to be reflected in a revised Green deal, writes Alena Mastantuono

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16 March 202210 March 2022

Drugstore chain dm uses clothes hangers made from grass

ALANA and PUSBLU children's textiles have been made of the grass fibre-based bioplastic AgriPlast from the company Biowert Industrie GmbH in Odenwald, Germany

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Drogeriemarktkette dm verwendet Kleiderbügel aus Gras

Kindertextilien von ALANA und PUSBLU bestehen aus dem grasfaserbasierten Biokunststoff AgriPlast der Firma Biowert Industrie GmbH im Odenwald

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Houston biotech startup will use microbes to make hydrogen from oil

The technology would extend the life of the low-value wells and create a new revenue stream from so-called “gold hydrogen,” which is produced biologically and emissions-free underground

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PLA does not endanger PET recycling

Wageningen conducted study concludes that considering current industrial methods for sorting and recycling, PLA has little to no influence on recycled PET (rPET)

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PURA Plans To Disrupt $200 Billion Steel Rebar Market With Hemp Alternative In Addition To Disrupting $600 Billion Lumber Market

Company is constructing a facility in Farmersville, Texas where they will conduct consultative education for each corporate customer to how hemp can be utilized to improve the efficiency of existing products

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A radical, carbon negative project in Turkey is turning algae into bio-jet fuel

The country is hoping to use both microalgae and macroalgae to produce a variety of products including fuel, food supplements and fertilisers at its new biorefinery

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How an Indian company is transforming palm leaves into tableware

Bollant Industries purchase fallen areca leaves collected by farmers around Karnataka, India, and acquires used paper from local paper mills to transform the leaves into cutlery and tableware and into colorful plates

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Alte Handwerkskunst neu gedacht: Franz Fertig entwickelt Vollholz-Verbinder für die industrielle Möbelproduktion

Ziel: Komplett metallfreie Holzgestelle für Funktionsmöbel – nachhaltig, recyclingfreundlich, leicht und reversibel zu montieren

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Low-tech and its benefits for sustainability

Many proponents of sustainability adhere to the idea that the main path to sustainability lies in high-tech solutions. Like electric cars instead of the old ones, that guzzle fossil fuels. We even wrote a book on this ‘green growth’. But we also need to look at low-tech and its opportunities

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15 March 202214 March 2022

Umweltfreundliche Mulchfolien für die Landwirtschaft

Einladung zur Abschlusskonferenz des Projektes iMulch