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7 April 202031 December 2020

Mass Balance Certification Principles Will Support Plastic Recycling Growth and Accelerate Advanced Recycling Development

Mass balance has previously been successful in developing high levels of transparency and consumer trust for other materials such as paper and renewable energy

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3 April 20209 September 2021

Global Survey Reveals Two Thirds of Adults Not Recycling All Plastic Waste

Hi-Cone’s first annual report on The State of Plastic Recycling reveals consumer attitudes towards recycling and the circular economy

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30 March 20209 September 2021

Neste und Mirova unterstützen Recycling Technologies, um Übergang zur Kreislaufwirtschaft für Kunststoffe zu beschleunigen

Die Entwicklung chemischer Recyclingverfahren soll vorangetrieben werden, um die Umstellung auf eine Kreislaufwirtschaft für Kunststoffe zu fördern

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polynSPIRE: Building a future without plastic waste

Tatiana Garcia-Armingol, Director of the CIRCE Foundation, discusses proposed innovations in mass recycling that seek to create a functional future without plastic waste

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Neste and Mirova back Recycling Technologies to accelerate transition to circular economy for plastic

Aim is to accelerate the development of chemical recycling and foster the transition to a circular economy for plastic

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26 March 20209 September 2021

“What we urgently need is a less emotionally charged debate on plastics”

According to the EU’s plastics strategy, the aim is for PET bottles to contain at least 25 per cent of recycled material by 2025. How realistic is this target?

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25 March 20209 September 2021

Department of Energy Announces $25 Million for Plastics Recycling R&D, Launches Upcycling Consortium

Department ’s Plastics Innovation Challenge is offering a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies

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The Sustainable Packaging Evolution: Ineos, PS, and Chemical Recycling

As the coronavirus crisis casts polystyrene and PS products in a more favorable light, chemical recycling could change the long-term sustainable equation for the polymer

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DOE offers $25 million for plastics recycling R&D

BETO issued a joint funding opportunity announcement on March titled “BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment.”

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24 March 20209 September 2021

Inline Plastics – First USA Manufacturer to Infuse All Products with Post Consumer Content Derived from Chemical Recycling

rDPET™ is the latest innovative solution from the leading manufacturer of high quality, crystal clear, food packaging containers

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Can chemical recycling help lead Europe to a circular economy 2.0?

Cefic views towards a carbon-smart circular future

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16 March 20209 September 2021

Queensland Motor Industry Invests in Innovative Australian Tyre Recycler

Green Distillation Technologies has discovered a process that turns end-of-life tyres into high value oil, carbon and steel

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13 March 20209 September 2021

Singapore Parliament: S’pore looks to create Newoil by transforming waste plastic into alternative fuel

With successful ambitions will this move bring the Singaporean society closer to both their goals of being a zero-waste nation and a low-carbon economy

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Recycling turbine blades

Intelligently recovering and recycling balsa wood

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Recycling von Rotorblättern

Balsaholz intelligent zurückgewinnen und wiederverwerten

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12 March 20209 September 2021

Introducing chemical recycling: Plastic waste becoming a resource

“Every year, Europeans generate 25 million tonnes of plastic waste, but less than 30% is collected for recycling” states the 2018 European Plastics Strategy

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11 March 20209 September 2021

Thermal Catalytic Biomass Conversion and Catalytic Pyrolysis

The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech’s Plastics Chemical Recycling

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9 March 202031 December 2020

Aus dem Gelben Sack zu Virgin-Kunststoff – Chemisches Recycling als Beitrag zu Circular Economy

Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV) hat gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Projektpartnern ein Verfahren zum rohstofflichen Recycling von Polystyrol entwickelt

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New method converts carbon dioxide to methane at low temperatures

Waseda University scientists found a method to improve carbon dioxide conversion and increase the amount of produced methane

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6 March 20209 November 2020

Good as new: how chemical recycling is giving every day plastic a new lease of life

Worley has partnered with Agilyx and INEOS Styrolution to advance the circular economy for plastics and will be providing engineering design services for a commercial-scale polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois

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5 March 20209 September 2021

How The Circular Economy Is Revolutionising The Plastics Packaging Industry

NEO Group and RETAL Industries are actively involved in the implementation of the circular economy

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3 March 20209 November 2020

Chemical Versus Mechanical Recycling of Plastic Waste

Chemical recycling might currently be popular due to a lack of knowledge of how to improve mechanical recycling

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26 February 20209 September 2021

Euric unveils brochure on the safe management of chemicals by the recycling industry

As Euric points out, sound management of hazardous substances in waste management and recycling activities is at the core of the circular economy

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25 February 202031 December 2020

GreenMantra Forges New Plastics Markets via Chemical Recycling

GreenMantra is leveraging chemical recycling to make products other than recycled bottles, clothing, carpets and other mainstream commodities

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24 February 20209 September 2021

Circularity in the Chemicals Industry: Drivers, Challenges and Solutions

The chemical industry is the third-largest industrial CO₂ emitter after steel and cement and is responsible for about 4% of total global direct emissions

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Polestar takes sustainability seriously with innovative new solutions for car interiors

Innovative materials such as Bcomp’s natural fibre composite solutions reduce plastic content, cut weight and could improve crash behaviour for interior panels

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20 February 20209 September 2021

Plastic recycling: many technologies available, no winner, says Lux Research

Research report shows four technologies to remain dominant in the near future: mechanical recycling, depolymerisation, pyrolysis, and solvent-based recycling

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19 February 202010 November 2020

Versalis to launch Hoopᵀᴹ, chemical recycling towards infinitely recyclable plastic

First plant with a capacity of 6,000 tonnes per year at the Mantova site

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Versalis launches chemical recycling project in Mantova, Italy

Versalis has launched a project for the development of a new technology to chemically recycle plastic waste, the Italian chemicals major said on Monday

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17 February 20209 September 2021

Avery Dennison announces “first-ever” recycled polypropylene label material

Pilot project will make this material available during 2020

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13 February 20209 November 2020

BASF introduces innovative pilot blockchain project to improve circular economy and traceability of recycled plastics

The pilot project will introduce a more sustainable alternative to the linear economic model, reducing plastic waste, maximizing its value and enhancing resource efficiency

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12 February 20209 September 2021

The chemical cure?

The final piece of the recycling jigsaw, or a toxic pseudo-solution? David Burrows reports on chemical recycling

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11 February 20209 September 2021

Chemical Recycling: A Viable Solution to Plastic Waste or Adding to the Problem?

What do terms like “chemical recycling,” “pyrolysis,” and “waste-to-energy” really mean? How viable or most importand, how effective are these technologies?

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10 February 20209 September 2021

Recycling clothing the chemical way

Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling

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5 February 20209 November 2020

Chemical recycling solution nears commercialisation

Since its inception in 2011, the depolymerisation technology has been scaled rapidly and, in 2017, was able to harness investment to the tune of €8 million under a project called ‘DEMETO’, which ends this year

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Breakthrough means plastic can be recycled hundreds of times

Breaking down plastic polymers into their chemical building blocks

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4 February 202023 November 2020

Nestlé schafft Markt für recycelte Kunststoffe in Lebensmittelqualität und lanciert Fonds für Verpackungsinnovation

Unternehmen will in Start-ups investieren, die in den Innovationsbereichen 'Neuartige Verpackungen, Nachfüllsysteme und Recyclinglösungen' aktiv sind

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3 February 20209 September 2021

The CreaSolv® Process is neither a Solvolysis nor Chemical Recycling

New study of the Netherlands Institute for Sustainable Packaging (KIDV) proves that Physical Recycling is an attractive alternative to chemical recycling

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31 January 20209 November 2020

Styrenics Circular Solutions Members to Initiate Evaluation of Pyrowave Plastic-to-plastic Chemical Recycling Technology

SCS members INEOS Styrolution, Total, Trinseo and Versalis (Eni) to evaluate in detail Pyrowave's depolymerisation technology

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23 January 20209 September 2021

New Methods of Recycling Polymers

This article presents the key recycling processes that are helping to address the problem of waste plastic

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17 January 20209 November 2020

BASF signs Dutch Green Deal for plastic recycling

BASF has signed the Green Deal for advancing recycling in the Dutch economy

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Wenn aus Kunststoff wieder Erdöl wird: igus investiert in Chemical Recycling Pionier

Von deutschem Wissenschaftler entwickelte Cat-HTR-Technologie gewinnt in 20 Minuten aus Plastikabfällen Ressourcen zurück

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16 January 202010 November 2020

Is there a Potential for Chemical Recycling in the Recycling Industry?

Nexant has just completed a Special Report titled “Sorting through Plastic Waste – Is Chemical Recycling a Solution.” This report examines the technical, economic and business aspects of chemical recycling of PET, PS and mixed plastics (plastics to fuel)

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15 January 20209 November 2020

Chemical Recycling: Break It Down

Podcast

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6 circular economy trends that will shape 2020

Ocean plastics crisis has driven both consumers and regulators to seek action. Companies are responding with new strategies to reduce waste

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14 January 20209 September 2021

Licella and BioLogiQ join forces to accelerate commercialisation of Cat-HTR™ technology in Australia

Licella and BioLogiQ join forces to accelerate commercialisation of Cat-HTR™ technology in Australia, to chemically recycle post-consumption plastic that would otherwise not be recycled

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9 January 20209 November 2020

Mitsubishi Corporation Joins PET Chemical Recycling Business

Highly recyclable due to well-established collection and recycling facilities, PET has a wide range of applications

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8 January 202010 November 2020

Understanding the Potential of New Technologies with Our Essentials of Chemical Recycling Course

Uncertainties, Challenges, and Opportunities

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7 January 20209 November 2020

Chemical recycling offers a way to create a circular plastics economy

As public desire to tackle plastic pollution of the natural environment continues to grow, action being taken across the food industry is to be commended in many cases. However, the scale of the challenge that remains is vast

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6 January 20209 September 2021

ALPLA joins cross-industry consortium for chemical recycling

Innovative technology enables circularity for difficult-to-recycle PET plastic waste