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22 June 202319 June 2023

End-of-life Tyres

This latest article explores the fate of end-of-lie tyres and discusses strategies to reuse and recover the high-value compounds they are made of

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20 June 202315 June 2023

Plastics Europe welcomes UNEP’s step closer to a draft agreement on a global plastics treaty

In her opening speech, Virginia Janssens, Managing Director of Plastics Europe, made a plea for ‘a total market transformation that drastically reduces the influx of new plastics

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Kunststoff- und Chemieindustrie unterstützen UN-Plastikabkommen

PlasticsEurope Deutschland zu Fortschritten und Aussichten des UN-Plastikabkommens

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Plastic waste: agreement is just the start

Many fear that major plastics producers like the US, China and Saudi Arabia will only approve of better recycling. But the need to come into action is generally felt

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16 June 202314 June 2023

Solvent Introduced at PureCycle’s Ironton Facility

PureCycle initiated the solvent startup procedure at its polypropylene purification facility in Ironton, Ohio

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15 June 202312 June 2023

Indorama Ventures and Carbios reaffirm partnership to build first-of-a-kind PET biorecycling plant in France

Both parties intent to increase their recycling capacity to 50 billion PET bottles per year by 2025

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Carbios + Indorama: Werk für biobasiertes PET-Recycling in Planung

Fertigstellung von vorgesehenen Kapazitäten über das Recycling von 50.000 Tonnen PET-Abfall im Jahr ist für 2025 geplant

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13 June 20237 June 2023

White paper: New guide to the future of plastics

Balance ranging from plastics reduction to a sustainable use of recyclable plastics

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Whitepaper: Neuer Wegweiser für die Zukunft der Kunststoffe

Balance zwischen Plastikreduktion und einem nachhaltigen Umgang mit recyclingfähigen Kunststoffen

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12 June 20237 June 2023

Discussion: How to allocate and communicate recycled content in packaging?

A label reading “100% recycled content” should only be allowed for packaging products fully made from recycled content. Otherwise, it should be considered a misleading environmental claim

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2 June 202330 May 2023

From the incinerator to new packaging: Arla Foods explores new way to recycle plastic waste

Chemical recycling helps to reduce CO2 footprint and consumption of fossil feedstock for cheese packaging

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1 June 202330 May 2023

Summer Special 2023 – 20% discount on market and trend reports all around renewable carbon until 31 August 2023

After a successful Renewable Materials Conference 2023, covering all renewable carbon topics, nova-Institute is offering its reports around renewable carbon markets for a special price

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Sommer-Angebot – 20% Rabatt auf Markt- und Trendberichte rund um erneuerbaren Kohlenstoff bis zum 31. August 2023

Einer erfolgreichen Renewable Materials Conference 2023 folgend, die alle Themen rund um erneuerbaren Kohlenstoff abdeckte, bietet das nova-Institut seine Berichte rund um die Märkte für erneuerbaren Kohlenstoff zu einem Sonderpreis an

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Free Webinar on the Life Cycle Assessment of Avantium’s PEF

On 22 June, the PEFerence project team will organise a free webinar with the title: "PEF – A Circular Bio-Based Polymer with Improved Properties – LCA"

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31 May 202314 May 2024

EU-Staaten stimmen für Digitalen Produktpass und gegen Vernichtung von Neuwaren

Anders als die bisher geltende Ökodesign-Richtlinie soll die neue Verordnung nicht nur für energieverbrauchsrelevante Produkte, sondern für fast alle physischen Produkte gelten

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30 May 202324 May 2023

Infinity Recycling, Invest-NL and LyondellBasell invest in Pryme to accelerate the advanced recycling of plastic waste

Pryme is currently building an advanced recycling plant in Rotterdam to convert used plastic into valuable products on an industrial scale with support of its proprietary pyrolysis process

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25 May 202317 May 2023

bioplastics MAGAZINE on the Plastic. Climate. Future. podcast

In mid-April, Alex Thielen, editor of bioplastics MAGAZINE sat down with Mateusz (Mat) Wielopolski and John Sewell who host the podcast Plastic. Climate. Future. to talk about bioplastics MAGAZINE, the concept of renewable carbon and bioplastics overal

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24 May 202317 May 2023

Trinseo Starts Up Polycarbonate Dissolution Pilot Facility in the Netherlands

Dissolution technology allows effective end-of-life plastic recycling and enhances circularity

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Trinseo: Pilotanlage zur Auflösung von Polycarbonat gestartet

Das so genannte "Auflösungs-Recycling" erlaubt wirkungsvolles end-of-life Kunststoffrecycling und betreibt damit die Kreislaufwirtschaft

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Recycling giant Waste Management sees future in film recovery – USA

With today’s focus on plastics and their role in society, as well as their unwanted presence in the environment, there’s never been more interest in recycling rates

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UN lays out blueprint to reduce plastic waste 80% by 2040

Countries can reduce plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 using existing technologies and making major policy changes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report on Monday (15 May)

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23 May 202317 May 2023

LyondellBasell: Komplette Übernahme des Recyclers QCP

Der Chemiekonzern LyondellBasell übernimmt sämtliche Anteile des in den Niederlanden und Belgien aktiven Recyclingunternehmens Quality Circular Polymers (QCP)

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LyondellBasell and Veolia restructure their plastics recycling joint venture QCP

Global leader in chemicals LyondellBasell is going to overtake the ownership of Quality Circular Polymers (QCP), which is active as a recycling entertainment in the Netherlands and in Belgium

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22 May 202316 May 2023

2. Innovationswettbewerb für klimaneutrale Produktion ausgeschrieben

Das Wirtschaftsministerium schreibt den zweiten Innovationswettbewerb „Klimaneutrale Produktion mittels Industrie-4.0-Lösungen“ mit einem Volumen von insgesamt 5,5 Millionen Euro aus

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McDonald’s Leads Lobbying Offensive Against Laws to Reduce Packaging Waste in Europe

Flawed assumptions and a “disturbing” lack of transparency characterise an industry campaign against reusable packaging, academics and campaigners warn

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19 May 202319 May 2023

Eleven good reasons to attend the Renewable Materials Conference, 23-25 May, online and on-site (Siegburg/Cologne)

The chemical and plastics industry will need to replace 1 Gt of fossil carbon per year with renewable carbon from biomass, CO2 and recycling to achieve net-zero. How can this work?

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nova-Experts introduced: Dr. Lars Krause

Technology & Markets - Advanced Recycling - Content Management

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Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023: Winners announced in Amsterdam

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe brings together key players from the plastics and recycling sectors to showcase innovative technology, share best practice, network and do business

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Sabic’s new sustainable lnp™ compound will add to 400 million diverted water bottles and deliver thin-wall, non-br/cl flame retardance to 0.4 mm for Electrical Industry

At the end of 2022, the company had already diverted 400 million 0.5-liter bottles through its iQ upcycling technology

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Aus PET wird PBT mit halogenfreiem Flammschutz

Sabic bringt ein neues PBT-Compound auf den Markt. Hergestellt aus alten PET-Flaschen bietet es 0,4 mm Flammschutz ohne halogenierte Additive

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17 May 202312 May 2023

Huhtamaki to launch sustainable flexible packaging innovation

The game-changing technology provides a unique combination of best in-class protection, full recyclability and affordability

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16 May 202315 May 2023

Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2023 – Call for Abstracts

Taking place on 28-29 November 2023 in Cologne, Germany, and online, the Advanced Recycling Conference will introduce the diversity of advanced recycling solutions and brings together stakeholders along the entire plastics value chain

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Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2023 – Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen

Die am 28. und 29. November 2023 in Köln und online stattfindende Advanced Recycling Conference stellt die Vielfalt fortschrittlicher Recyclinglösungen vor und bringt Akteure entlang der gesamten Kunststoff-Wertschöpfungskette zusammen

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15 May 202310 May 2023

IDTechEx Examines Whether Advanced Recycling Will Be the Answer to Sustainable Packaging

Some of the biggest challenges include the degradation of mechanical properties with recycling, which causes recycled plastic to be “downcycled” from packaging to other applications

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REVECOL® by ERCA, die zirkuläre Revolution geht einen Schritt weiter

Erstmals kann dieser Schritt der textilen Lieferkette somit auch Materialien mit einem zirkulären Ansatz nutzen und so zu einer echten Nachhaltigkeit des Endprodukts beitragen

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REVECOL® by ERCA, the circular revolution takes a step forward

For the first time, this step of the textile supply chain can thus also make use of materials with a circular approach

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12 May 20239 May 2023

Collaboration project shows: multi-layer packaging can be separated and recycled on an industrial scale

BASF, Krones, SÜDPACK and TOMRA reported about their first collaboration trial, that they were able to completely separate as much as 69 percent of the PET/PE components and partially separate another twelve percent

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Kooperationsprojekt zeigt: Mehrschichtverpackungen sind in industriellem Maßstab trenn- und recycelbar

BASF, Krones, SÜDPACK und TOMRA konnten im ersten Kooperationsversuch bereits zeigen, dass 69 Prozent der PET/PE-Komponenten komplett und zwölf Prozent teilweise zu trennen sind

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ALUULA: OFF-CUTS, TRANSFORMED

In a new project, ALUULA material off-cuts and end-of-life products were compressed into uniform, lightweight and ultra-durable panels

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Neue Kooperationsplattform für eine nachhaltige Textilwirtschaft startet

Ab Mai 2023 wollen die Projektpartner HSNR, DWI - Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien und das Fraunhofer-Institut für Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik UMSICHT eine Kooperationsplattform betreiben und damit die Hindernisse für eine nachhaltige und umweltfreundliche Textilwirtschaft überwinden

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11 May 20238 May 2023

Packaging made from greenhouse gases

TotalEnergies Corbion offers at Interpack recycled Luminy® rPLA, which contains 20% and 30% post-industrial and post-consumer recycled content in line with ISO 22095 standard

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Kompostierbare Verpackungen aus erneuerbarer Biomasse

Beim biobasierten Material Luminy PLA von Total Energies Corbion ist der Kohlenstoff-Fußabdruck im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Kunststoffen 75% geringer

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10 May 20235 May 2023

Asahi Kasei and Microwave Chemical launch joint demonstration project for chemical recycling of polyamide 66 using microwave-based technology

The process utilizes microwaves to depolymerize2 PA66 and directly obtain the monomers hexamethylenediamine (HMD) and adipic acid (ADA), which can then be used to manufacture new PA66

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Asahi Kasei: Projekt für chemisches Recycling von PA66 mittels Mikrowellentechnologie – Kooperation mit Microwave Chemical

Neuer Prozess ermöglicht bei wenig Energieaufwand die Extraktion der Monomere Hexamethylendiamin (HMD) und Adipinsäure (ADA), die dann für die Herstellung von neuem PA66 wiederverwendet werden können

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9 May 20234 May 2023

New chemistry can extract virgin-grade materials from wind turbine blades in one process

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have developed a chemical process that can disassemble the epoxy composite of wind turbine blades and simultaneously extract intact glass fibres as well as one of the epoxy resin's original building blocks in a high quality. The recovered materials could potentially be used in the production of new blades

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Neues chemisches Verfahren zur Gewinnung neuer Materialien aus den Rotorblättern von Windkraftanlagen in einem einzigen Prozess

Das neue chemische Verfahren ist nicht auf Windturbinenblätter beschränkt, sondern funktioniert bei vielen verschiedenen so genannten faserverstärkten Epoxidverbundwerkstoffen, einschließlich einiger Materialien, die mit besonders teuren Kohlenstofffasern verstärkt sind

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8 May 20232 May 2023

Pyrum: Vom Altreifen zum Türgriff

Aus ausgedienten Reifen erzeugt das Unternehmen Pyrolyseöl über ein eigenes Verfahren, welches dann an BASF geliefert und in Kombination mit Biomethan für Fahrzeugbauteile von Mercedes-Benz dient

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Fortum Battery Recycling opens Europe’s largest closed-loop hydromet­al­lur­gical battery recycling facility in Finland

Fortum Battery Recycling has started commercial operations at its state-of-the-art hydrometallurgical battery material recycling facility in Harjavalta, Finland

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Fortum Battery Recycling eröffnet Europas größte hydro­me­tall­ur­gische Batte­rie­re­cy­cling-Anlage in Finnland

Fortum Battery Recycling hat in Harjavalta, Finnland, eine hochmoderne hydrometallurgische Recyclinganlage für Batteriematerialien in Betrieb genommen - die erste kommerzielle und in Bezug auf die Recyclingkapazität größte hydrometallurgische Anlage in Europa

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4 May 20233 May 2023

FTC to Host Workshop on “Recyclable” Claims as Part of its Ongoing Review of the Agency’s Green Guides

The workshop, Talking Trash at the FTC: Recyclable Claims and the Green Guides, is free and open to the public, and pre-registration is not required