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8 October 20206 October 2020

Borealis receives European Investment Bank loan for development of circular economy solutions for plastics

Loan to boost Borealis research and development efforts in propelling the industry towards plastics circularity

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VTT’s new piloting platform for process chemistry ready for speeding up bio- and circular economy

With the launch of the piloting platform for process chemistry, VTT Bioruukki strengthens its position among the world's leading piloting centres

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Agilyx Joins AmSty, INEOS Styrolution and Trinseo as Technology Partner to Accelerate Realization of Circular Polystyrene

The four-way NDA signifies a commitment to a circular economy of polystyrene and serves as a basis for exploring and optimizing advanced recycling technologies for polystyrene

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Nara has a new way to stop its deer from eating plastic bags

Japanese researcher developed a deer-friendly paper made from the pulp recycled from old milk cartons and the same rice bran used for crackers

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7 October 20209 September 2021

Energy Transition: Total Is Investing More Than €500 Million To Convert Its Grandpuits Refinery Into a Zero-Crude Platform for Biofuels and Bioplastics

New platform will focus on four new industrial activities and is demonstrating company's commitment to the energy transition and to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050

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Total: Komplette Neuausrichtung der Raffinerie in Grandpuits

Konzern avisiert neue Rohöl-freie Plattform mit vier Industriezweigen, um mittels eigener Zugeständnisse zur Energiewende ein Carbon-neutrales Europa bis 2050 zu erreichen

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Polystyrene can be circulated back to raw-material

MoPo project develops collection and reuse of the waste in Europe

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Call it by its name: Synthetic gas and oil from old plastics is not ‘recycling’, it’s ‘recovery’

Chemical recovery of plastics to produce new materials could be a welcome complement to mechanical recycling, and a useful way to reduce waste

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5 October 20209 September 2021

Call for abstracts: 2nd International Conference on Cellulose Fibres, 2–3 February 2021, Cologne (Germany)

Lenzing, Levaco Chemicals and Kelheim Fibres will support the conference as gold sponsors. Further sponsors are welcome.

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FINEX™ Reaches New Milestones; Launches Officially at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics

As part of its efforts to promote textile fibre recycling in China, Sateri is in dialogue with the China Association of Circular Economy (CACE)

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1 October 202017 December 2024

The future of the chemical and plastics industry: Renewable Carbon

nova-Institute publishes a comprehensive background paper on renewable carbon: definition, strategy, measures and potential

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BASF invests into Pyrum as part of its ChemCyclingTM project

Pyrolysis oil from waste tires as additional raw material source next to oil from mixed plastic waste

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BASF investiert in Pyrum im Rahmen des ChemCyclingTM-Projekts

Pyrolyseöl aus Altreifen als zusätzliche Rohstoffquelle neben Öl aus gemischten Kunststoffabfällen

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30 September 20209 September 2021

Neues Recyclingverfahren für gebrauchte Windeln

Babywindeln produzieren Berge von Müll. Acib-Forscher haben einen neuartigen biotechnologischen Recyclingprozess auf Basis von Enzymen entwickelt.

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29 September 20209 September 2021

Unilever’s Persil switches to bio-based formula to fill its recycled plastic bottles

Persil’s eco re-launch is the first innovation in the UK as part of Unilever’s ‘Clean Future’ commitment and in its intent to embed the circular economy principles

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25 September 20209 September 2021

Textiles giants open new front in cellulosic recycling

Man-made cellulosic fibres are of increasing importance and has doubled in the last 30 years as forecast for continued growth over the coming years

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Vom Haushaltsmüll zum trendigen Designprodukt

Die Entwicklung außergewöhnlicher Designprodukte aus recyclingfähigem Kunststoff zeichnet die Firma PLAST-IQ  aus Nußbach aus

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24 September 202017 December 2024

World market leaders take climate protection seriously: New initiative to replace fossil with renewable carbon wants to change the foundation of the chemical industry

Companies looking for sustainable chemical and material solutions are welcome to join and profit from the support of the initiative

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Nestlé Invests USD 30 Million in Closed Loop Leadership Fund

This first investment from the company’s sustainable packaging venture fund will help upgrade U.S. recycling infrastructure and secure access to food-grade recycled plastics

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23 September 20209 September 2021

The ELIOT project will improve environmental sustainability in aeronautics by using new biocomposite recycling methods

AIMPLAS is coordinating the European project to develop new cost-effective recycling technologies to guarantee the sustainability of aeronautics components

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Mater designs stools made with leftover grain from beer and plastic insulin pens

Spent grain leftovers from Carlsberg's beer production process combined with a granulate of plastic waste were used to create new furniture

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21 September 202017 September 2020

LyondellBasell Successfully Starts Up New Pilot Molecular Recycling Facility

Company completes next step towards an industrial scale conversion of plastic waste into feedstock

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LyondellBasell: Pilotanlage für molekulares Recycling in Betrieb genommen

Unternehmen nimmt nächste Etappe zur industriellen Verwertung von Kunststoff-Abfällen in einen neuen Rohstoff

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18 September 202017 September 2020

BlackCycle: A major European project for recycling end-of-life tyres into new tyres

Michelin to enable a massive circular economy of tyres by designing world-first recycling processes for end-of-life tyres

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BlackCycle: Michelin und Partner starten europäisches Projekt zum Recycling von Altreifen

Michelin setzt sich für konsequente Kreislaufwirtschaft und die Wiederverwertung von Altreifen bei der Reifenproduktion ein

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17 September 202016 September 2020

Henkel pioneers digital watermark technology with new Vernel product range

“HolyGrail 2.0” pilot project to foster high-quality packaging recycling

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Henkel ist Vorreiter der digitalen Wasserzeichen-Technologie mit neuer Vernel-Produktreihe

„HolyGrail 2.0“-Pilotprojekt zur Förderung von hochwertigem Verpackungsrecycling

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16 September 202011 September 2020

Neues Stoffstrombild für Deutschland: Mehr Rezyklate und Kreislaufführung bei Kunststoffen

Ergebnis für 2019 zeigt, dass Recyclingkunststoffe häufiger zum Einsatz kamen als zuvor und als Rohstoff für neue Kunststoffprodukte immer wichtiger werden

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BASF: Neues, chemisches Recyclingverfahren für gebrauchte Matratzen

Erste Mengen des recycelten Materials sollen im Laufe des Jahres für erste Pilotprojekte gemeinsam mit Projektpartnern Einsatz finden

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Legislature narrowly rejects nation’s toughest restrictions on plastics

A measure requiring manufacturers to reduce single-use plastics in landfills fails to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats

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15 September 20209 September 2021

Stora Enso: Pilotanlage für biobasierten Schaumstoff in Planung

Biofaserschaumstoffe sind recycel- und biologisch abbaubar und sind zunächst zur Anwendung als Schutzverpackungen und Polsterungen vorgesehen

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Potential challenges and opportunities of using chemical recycling for plastic wastes

Collective action is needed to build technologies that transform plastic waste to value as by chemical re-processing or advanced recycling

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14 September 20209 September 2021

Essential Requirements for Packaging should consider benefits of bioplastics

Currently, EU legislation defines a ‘hierarchy’ in waste management, where waste prevention and re-use are the most preferred options, followed by recycling

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11 September 20208 September 2020

BASF signs agreements with New Energy for uptake of pyrolysis oil derived from waste tires and for a joint feasibility study

Pyrolysis oil from end-of-life tires as an additional raw material source next to oil from mixed plastic waste

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BASF unterzeichnet Vereinbarungen mit New Energy über die Abnahme von Pyrolyseöl aus Altreifen und eine gemeinsame Machbarkeitsstudie

Pyrolyseöl aus Altreifen neben Öl aus gemischten Kunststoffabfällen als zusätzliche Rohstoffquelle

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Mini power plants from coated algae

Biofuels and closed materials cycles due to bio-templating

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Mini-Kraftwerke aus beschichteten Blaualgen

Treibstoff und raffinerte Materialkreisläufe dank Biotemplating

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10 September 20208 September 2020

New minimum standard for recycling-friendly packaging now available – plastics debate makes implementation more difficult

Current debate about plastics brings new challenges: hard-to-recycle composite packaging made from paper and plastics is seeing a disproportionate rise

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Neuer Mindeststandard für recyclinggerechte Verpackungen liegt vor – Plastikdiskussion erschwert die Umsetzung

Aktuelle Plastikdebatte bringt neue Herausforderungen: Schlecht recycelbare Verbundverpackungen aus Papier und Kunststoff nehmen überproportional zu

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NTU Singapore scientists use fruit peel to turn old batteries into new

The team demonstrated their concept using orange peel, which recovered precious metals from battery waste efficiently

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9 September 20209 September 2021

HEXPOL TPE Expands Range of Biobased Thermoplastic Elastomers

Series now includes grades based on Styrenic Block Copolymer and Thermoplastic Polyolefin technologies, with amounts of renewable content to over 90%

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HEXPOL TPE erweitert Sortiment an biobasierten thermoplastischen Elastomeren

Serie umfasst nun Materialien auf der Basis von Styrol-Block-Copolymeren und Thermoplastischen Polyolefinen mit einem erneuerbaren Anteil von bis zu über 90%

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Cleaning our Homes while Cleaning the Sky CarbonSmart™ Products hit the Stores in Switzerland!

Switzerland’s largest retail company and its subsidiary have launched a new range of cleaning products, containing LanzaTech ethanol made from recycled pollution

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U.S. Plastics Pact Launches to Ignite Change Toward Circular Economy for Plastic

60+ Brands, Retailers, Government Agencies, and NGOs Collaborate to Advance All Plastic Packaging to become Reusable, Recyclable, or Compostable by 2025

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8 September 20203 September 2020

Industry representatives outline key credibility principles for new sustainability standard

Perstorp together with three leading industry representatives has outlined some key principles the new ISO standard needs to embrace for maximum credibility

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7 September 20209 September 2021

Unilever to eliminate fossil fuels in cleaning products by 2030

Renewable sources of carbon are processed into useful ingredients to produce cleaning and laundry products

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Green Chemicals Blog’s Comment: Unilever to eliminate fossil fuels in cleaning products by 2030

This new ambition is a core component of Unilever’s ‘Clean Future’, a ground-breaking innovation programme designed by the company’s Home Care division

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Chemical recycling: the missing link in a closed and integrated value chain

Braskem is investing in research and production capabilities for feedstock recycling in order to remain at the forefront of technological development in this area

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Ob Ernährung, Arbeit oder Freizeit: Forschende denken beim Design schon ans Recycling

FNR-Kooperationsprojekt zur Entwicklung eines Biokunststoffs für Lebensmittelverpackungen, die aus Polymilchsäure (PLA) und einer Beschichtung aus so genannten BioOrmoceren bestehen sollen

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The future of chemical recycling in tackling plastic waste

Chemical recycling technologies can be part of the solution since it can use waste plastic streams that currently have no or low value in recycling