13 November 202010 November 2020 Our students present ‘waste car’ Luca: a car made largely from recycled waste Sporty-looking electric car has been made with a base of flax and recycled plastic, a large part of which was even fished out of the ocean
12 November 20209 September 2021 Effiziente Nutzung von Kunststoffabfällen Labor der Rice University leitet potenzielle Umweltgefahr in nützliches Material um
Biologisch abbaubar, kompostierbar, biobasiert: Das ist der Unterschied Abgesehen davon, dass Hersteller oft nicht alle verwendeten Stoffe angeben, ist laut UBA noch nicht ausreichend erforscht, wie Biokunststoffe auf die Umwelt einwirken
Der neue grüne Deal – Folge 05: Runde Sache Kern des europäischen Green Deals ist die Kreislaufwirtschaft. Sie beginnt bei einem vorausschauenden Produkt- und Verpackungsdesign. Und braucht verlässliche Regeln für Hersteller, Händler und Kunden
11 November 20209 November 2020 Google commits to using recycled materials in all new products by 2022 All of the company's new Pixel and Nest products were designed with some sort of recycled material this year
Alice Potts makes bioplastic face shields from food waste Designer Alice Potts combined food waste with flowers from London parks to create a series of bioplastic face shields for the NGV Triennial
Das Fraunhofer Spin-off Projekt EcoPals will kommunale Müllberge für nachhaltigere Straßen nutzen Die Gründungsgeschichte des Fraunhofer-Spin-off Projekts EcoPals zeigt, dass manchmal gerade die Umwege, unvorhergesehenen Ereignisse und spontanen Gelegenheiten die besten Gründergeschichten schreiben
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $27 Million in Plastics Recycling Research and Development All new projects will help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products
9 November 20204 November 2020 Aliplast and NextChem team up for plastics recycling The synergy between skills and resources of these two big players will result in the only plant of its kind in Europe
Aliplast und NextChem unterzeichnen Vereinbarung zum Kunststoffrecycling Strategische Vereinbarung zur Realisierung einer Anlage in Italien, wo die MyReplast(TM)-Technologie zum Einsatz kommen soll
Animal feed made from recycled carbon secures €2.5M European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator funding Deep Branch has developed a low carbon animal feed with a nutritional profile that is comparable with fishmeal
6 November 20209 September 2021 New market and technology report: Chemical Recycling – Status, Trends, and Challenges – Technologies, Sustainability, Policy and Key Players nova’s new market and technology report „Chemical Recycling - Status, Trends, and Challenges” is addressed to the chemical and plastic industry, brands, technology scouts, investors, and policy makers. On 190 pages the report provides information around chemical recycling including 21 figures and 10 tables.
Australian recycler can turn old tyres into hydrogen GDT approach provides an economic recycling solution by turning them into valuable and highly saleable materials
5 November 20209 September 2021 Enzyme zerlegen PET PET-Depolymerase erfolgt zum Abbau und Recycling von Plastikflaschen mittels mutierter Enzyme
SABIC, The Estée Lauder Companies And Origins Announce Collaboration To Unveil The First Premium Brand Packaging Tube Made With Certified Circular Polyolefins Origins will be the first prestige beauty brand to use certified circular polyolefins from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio to launch a tube pack format
4 November 20209 September 2021 Kunststoffe aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen Auch für Laborprodukte ist der Einsatz von Rezyklaten und biobasierten Kunststoffen möglich - hier ein Überblick über Materialeien, die solche Anforderungen erfüllen können
ELC and Origins Announce Sustainable Packaging Partnership With SABIC and ALBÉA Origins becomes first global prestige beauty brand to utilize advanced recycled resin in tube pack format
Carbon Dioxide: The New Chemical Feedstock for Valuable Consumer Products NETL research team Team focuses on recycling CO2 generated by fossil energy plants and other industrial sources into chemicals, alcohols, acids and syngas as progressing tools
3 November 20209 September 2021 Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) supports the European Green Deal, but calls for an extension to the material sector through a comprehensive renewable carbon strategy The current political focus on renewable energy is not sufficient to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050.
LanzaTech, Total and L’Oréal Announce a Worldwide Premiere: The Production of the First Cosmetic Packaging Made From Industrial Carbon Emissions It is a technological and industrial success proving that industrial carbon emissions can be used to produce plastic packaging
LanzaTech, Total und L’Oréal verkünden eine Weltpremiere: Die Herstellung der ersten Plastikflasche für Kosmetikprodukte aus industriellem Kohlenstoffausstoss Es ist ein technologischer und industrieller Erfolg, der beweist, dass industrielle Kohlenstoffemissionen zur Herstellung von Kunststoffverpackungen genutzt werden können
Holland Colours’ biobased color concentrates used in the first The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses Holland Colours has worked closely with The Ocean Cleanup team to tailor the first product made with certified ocean plastic: sunglasses
2 November 20209 September 2021 NNFCC joins 43 other signatories in open letter to UK government Signatories are calling for the immediate banning of plastics containing additives to degradation
A first-of-its-kind catalyst mimics natural processes to break down plastic and produce valuable new products While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don’t make it economically worthwhile
30 October 20209 September 2021 Durchbruch bei der Wasserstoff-Rückumwandlung aus Methanol für Brennstoffzellen Projekt Metha-Cycle entkoppelt Windkraft vom Strombedarf
29 October 20209 September 2021 A new era begins: The Renewable Materials Conference, Cologne and online, 18–20 May 2021 Featuring a unique concept to present all sustainable and renewable material solutions at one event: bio-based, CO2-based and recycled www.renewable-materials.eu
28 October 202023 October 2020 Total and Plastic Energy announce a strategic partnership and the construction of the first chemical recycling plant in France This first project in France represents the start of the collaboration between Total and Plastic Energy to deploy chemical recycling
Total: Kooperation mit Plastic Energy Erstes Projekt dieser Art in Frankreich soll der Start einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen Total und Plastic Energy werden, um das Chemische Recycling voranzubringen
27 October 202022 October 2020 Recycling Technologies, Neste and Unilever combine expertise to test and validate systems to chemically recycle waste plastics The alliance will demonstrate new added-value applications for hard-to-recycle waste plastic materials, such as films, sachets and pouches
Neste, Recycling Technologies und Unilever bündeln Know-how, um Systeme zur chemischen Wiederverwertung von Altkunststoffen zu testen und zu validieren Partnerschaft wird neue, werthaltige Anwendungen für Altkunststoffe wie Folien, Beutel und Tüten hervorbringen, die schwierig zu recyceln sind
Marchon Eyewear, Inc. partners with Eastman to be the first to produce and sell eyewear made with Eastman’s sustainable acetate Scrap from Marchon's manufacturing of acetate frames can be diverted from landfills and used to produce new sustainable acetate
ReNew ELP to build world’s first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant using Cat-HTR technology Key benefit of the Cat-HTR technology is its ability to recycle multi-layer, flexible plastic materials or to process food-contaminated, mixed-polymer streams
26 October 20209 September 2021 Plans for UK First Plastic to Hydrogen Facility at Protos Approved £7m development will transform how plastic waste is dealt with in the region - treating up to 35 tonnes of unrecyclable plastics a day and using it to create a local source of hydrogen
23 October 202020 October 2020 PepsiCo Deutschland leistet signifikanten Beitrag zur Transformation des Getränkemarkts: 100% recycelte PET-Flaschen bis Ende 2021 7 Millionen Euro Investitionen für die Umstellung in Deutschland
22 October 20209 September 2021 Free webinar: All About RC(I) Discussing the Renewable Carbon Strategy and Initiative
Plastic packaging waste: EU needs to boost recycling to achieve ambitions Scale of the challenges facing the Member States should not be underestimated
Verpackungsabfälle aus Kunststoff: Die EU muss mehr recyceln, um ihre Ziele zu erreichen Ausmaß der Herausforderungen für die Mitgliedstaaten ist nicht zu unterschätzen
SOL Group invests with CropEnergies €15 million in the recovery of biogenic CO2 by alcoholic fermentation in Belgium From 2021 up to 65,000 tonnes of biogenic CO2 of the highest purity will be captured annually
Research to develop more efficient methods of recycling composite materials Results of a new project will run into new affordable composite thermoplastic products made from recycled materials
Schwarz Gruppe testet chemisches Recycling Im Rahmen eines Pilotprojektes mit SABIC sollen aus chemisch recycelten gemischten Kunststoffabfällen neue Verpackungen für Karotten hergestellt werden
Chevron Phillips Chemical successfully completes first U.S. commercial scale production of circular polyethylene from recycled mixed-waste plastics Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) today announced success in its first commercial scale production of polyethylene using advanced recycling technology
21 October 202016 October 2020 Lactips builds its future with a new plant in the Gier Valley Redevelopment and extension of a former regional industrial site to bring it into line with ecological standards
Coca-Cola in Western Europe transitions to 100% recycled plastic (rPET) bottles in two more markets Transition to 100% rPET confirmed the Netherlands and in Norway - important transition from use of new virgin oil-based plastic in PET bottles towards a local closed-loop recycling system
Messer baut neue CO2-Rückgewinnungsanlage in Frankreich Neues Werk soll Messer's CO2-Quellen weiter diversifizieren und so eine zuverlässige Gasversorgung der Kundschaft gewährleisten
Messer to build CO2-recovery unit at Vertex Bioenergy site in France The new plant is part of Messer’s long-term strategy to continue to diversify its CO2 sourcing and to ensure a reliable gas supply
Canada to ban single-use plastics such as bags, straws by end of 2021 Canada plans to ban plastic checkout bags and straws along with four other single-use plastic consumer items that are hard to recycle
20 October 20209 September 2021 Second Life für Plastikmüll GoPlastikNeutral will Pyrolyse-Wiederverwertung vorantreiben
‘World first’ tea capsules made using SABIC’S TRUCIRCLE™ solution for certified circular polypropylene The launch represented an innovative use of recycled, transparent plastic capsules, representing an exciting step towards a more sustainable future with products which are easier to recycle
19 October 20209 September 2021 Spotlight on chemical recycling: Offering a solution towards a circular economy Chemical Recycling Europe and its members provide a solution to make plastics circular with developing a new range of recycling methods
Eastman introduces Tritan™ Renew for sustainability without compromise Sustainable materials provider previews new-generation Tritan copolyester