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15 October 20209 September 2021

Alco Bio Fuel, Messer Benelux and IJsfabriek Strombeek once again investing millions of euros in recycling CO2 in North Sea Port

In the spring of 2022, this second line will be operational, bringing the annual capture of green CO₂ to 160,000 tons

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14 October 20209 October 2020

Plastic waste as a valuable resource – SÜDPACK invests in joint project with RECENSO

Collaboration aims to convert production-related reusable materials into high-quality pyrolysis oil on an industrial scale.

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Kunststoffabfälle als wertvolle Ressource – SÜDPACK investiert in gemeinsames Projekt mit RECENSO

Kooperation verfolgt das Ziel, produktionsbedingte Wertstoffe in industriellem Maßstab  in hochwertiges Pyrolyse-Öl umzuwandeln

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Braskem advances in research into chemical recycling of plastics

The new phase involves the signing of a cooperation with the Fábrica Carioca de Catalisadores (FCC S.A.), SENAI CETIQT and COPPE/UFRJ with total investment of R$2.7 million

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NewAge® Industries Announces New Plan to Recycle Silicone Tubing Waste

Adds Another Green Project to Its Sustainability Portfolio

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Loop Industries and SUEZ announce strategic partnership to build first infinite Loop facility producing 100% recycled and infinitely recyclable plastic in Europe

Partnership to meet the needs of global brands looking for 100% recycled content for packaging, which can be infinitely recycled

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Ecofriendly plastic alternative: Scraps to synthetics

New innovative material can be produced on an industrial scale in a new process developed by the Fraunhofer Institute IPK and its partners

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Umweltfreundliche Plastikalternative: Kunststoff aus Abfall

Neues Produktionsverfahren des Fraunhofer-Instituts IPK und seiner Partner ermöglicht die industrietaugliche Herstellung eines innovativen Materials

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13 October 20209 September 2021

Tesco introduces the first recycled food grade soft plastic packaging from materials returned by customers

Recent trial demonstrates for the first time that soft plastic can be continuously recycled into safe food-grade packaging

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Repsol reaches agreement to incorporate recycled-content polyolefins

Collaboration includes using mechanical recycling methods to produce recycled-content polymers that can be used in non-food contact flexible packaging applications

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Trinseo Collaborates with COEXPAN to Validate Polystyrene Recycling Technologies

Technologies for Use in the Dairy Industry for Form Fill Seal (FFS) Market at INNOTECH

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12 October 202017 December 2024

Lenzing is founding partner of the Renewable Carbon Initiative

The newly launched Renewable Carbon Initiative strives to herald the end of the fossil age for all organic chemicals and materials by 2050. Within the RCI Lenzing will especially focus on further greening up the textile and nonwoven businesses

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Lenzing ist Gründungspartner der Renewable Carbon Initiative

Die neu gegründete Renewable Carbon Initiative strebt das Ende des fossilen Zeitalters für alle organischen Chemikalien und Materialien bis 2050 an. Im Rahmen dieser Initiative wird sich Lenzing insbesondere auf die weitere Ökologisierung der Textil- und Vliesstoffbranchen konzentrieren

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9 October 20209 September 2021

New enzyme cocktail digests plastic waste six times faster

The discovery, by a team co-led by Prof John McGeehan, is another leap towards beating plastic waste

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Agilyx successfully listed on Merkur Market, part of Oslo Stock Exchange

Advanced Chemical Recycling Technology is Making Plastics More Circular

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Put fees, EPR and recycled content in the mix for plastics policy

This industry plan should include specific commitments for using recycled plastic in a wide range of products

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8 October 20206 October 2020

Bündnis 90 / Die GRÜNEN: Unsere Vision ist eine Wirtschaft ohne Müll

Zusammenfassung des Fraktionsbeschlusses „Grüne Strategie für eine ressourcenleichte, klimaneutrale und giftfreie Kreislaufwirtschaft“

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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