17 September 202411 September 2024 Textile waste and recycling: challenges and opportunities This article tackles the topic of textile waste and explores the possible recycling routes that exist today. It also offers a closer look at the UK's textile industry and the waste produced nationally
11 January 20239 January 2023 LanzaTech’s Waste Gas-to-SAF Facility receives £25M Grant from UK Department for Transport Advanced Fuels Fund Plans for the world’s first commercial-scale factory to transform waste gases into sustainable jet fuel have moved a step closer
2 May 202226 April 2022 Remarkable rejuvenation From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean, the Thames has made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years
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
16 December 20199 September 2021 Drax sets world-first ambition to become carbon negative by 2030 Critical to beating the climate crisis, enabling a just transition, protecting jobs and creating new opportunities for clean growth, says CEO Will Gardiner
19 November 20199 September 2021 Bioenergy with Carbon Capture: The Key to UK Decarbonisation? Does Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) hold the key to the UK's ambitious decarbonisation targets?
22 October 20199 September 2021 Negative-emission fuel agreement Velocys’ Bayou Fuels project set to produce negative emission fuels after signing CCUS agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures
19 January 201812 January 2018 World-leading microbeads ban takes effect Today the government's ban on microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products comes into effect
9 November 20167 November 2016 Inside the Scottish bioeconomy An interview with Roger Kilburn, CEO IBioIC Scotland
30 November 20159 September 2021 CO2Chem: Response to the UK £1bn CCS competition being axed Carbon Dioxide Utilisation treating CO2 as commodity to gain profit, not as waste
17 March 201517 March 2015 NNFCC contributing to Government bioeconomy report NNFCC and Inspire Biotech analysing the current availability and status of the UK’s industrial biotechnology-relevant processing plants and equipment
30 January 201529 January 2015 Plastics Industry warns of serious unintended consequences of potential carrier bag exemption Oxodegradable lobby accuses UK recyclers of ‘scaremongering’
7 July 20145 July 2014 Government issues a response to Plastic Bag Inquiry "UK industry to produce a genuinely biodegradable plastic bag that meets defined criteria and which can be reliably identified and separated in waste."
25 June 201425 June 2014 The British plan for the bioeconomy takes a step forward Lignocellulosic technologies are an important solution for enabling the use of non-food crops with the production of biofuels and bio-based chemicals
4 June 2013 Cereplast provides shareholders with an update on the Italian Plastic Bag Legislation Lobbying pressure from the traditional plastics industry is delaying new law
