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28 January 202524 January 2025

What you need to know about carbon capture, utilization and storage

The experimental facility will explore carbon capture, utilization or storage, and industrial decarbonization, and it will be sited at Cornell’s existing Combined Heat and Power Plant

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Biodegradable nylon precursor produced through artificial photosynthesis

Technology uses biomass-derived compounds and ammonia to produce an eco-friendly alternative plastic

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27 January 202522 January 2025

Refinity, Innventure’s newest company, acquires exclusive rights to novel technology for advanced recycling of mixed plastic waste from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Recently, Innventure and Dow announced plans to collaborate to develop and commercialize new waste-to-value technologies through Refinity

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Sustainable packaging: Council signs off on new rules for less waste and more re-use in the EU

Today, the Council formally adopted a regulation on packaging and packaging waste

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24 January 20253 February 2025

The chance for companies to contribute to the world’s leading event: The Renewable Materials Conference

The international meeting place for the chemical, the plastics and materials industries will take place from 22 to 24 September 2025 in Siegburg/Cologne. It presents solutions and innovations for replacing fossil carbon with biomass, CO2 utilisation and recycling

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23 January 202522 January 2025

LSU Researchers Create Low-Cost Method to Recycle Plastic

The scientists use electromagnetic induction heating along with special magnetic materials and catalysts to break down different types of plastic

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Non-conventional yeasts: promising cell factories for organic acid bioproduction

Microbial production of organic acids has been hindered by the poor acid tolerance of microorganisms and the high costs of waste salt reprocessing

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22 January 202520 January 2025

Ace Green Recycling expands LFP battery recycling capacity, lays vision for India’s largest LFP battery recycling facility

Plans to build lithium and lead battery recycling facility close to the strategic port of Mundra to service global markets

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Enhancing Biomass Project Economics with CO2 Market Opportunities

There are many technologies underway and being scaled up that aim to use CO2 for replacement of hydrocarbons in the development of bioplastics and advanced building materials

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Inorganic and biocatalysts work together to reduce CO2

In a hybrid cascade, climate-damaging CO2 is turned back into valuable methanol. An international research team has shown how this works

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21 January 202516 January 2025

Major EU-funded project tExtended ready to launch second phase

tExtended will raise their awareness about the sustainability and circularity of textiles through citizens’ participation in different actions on pre-sorting and returning of used textiles

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A competitive Europe – with or without plastics?

Event in the European Parliament to explore the urgent need for innovation, regulatory clarity, and investment to boost plastic recycling

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20 January 202514 January 2025

Panasonic HD develops marine biodegradable cellulose fiber molding material

By adding plant-derived cellulose fiber at high concentrations to marine biodegradable resins, Panasonic HD has developed a molding material that achieves both excellent mechanical properties and marine biodegradability

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Ambercycle and Benma Form Strategic Partnership to Scale Development of Circular Polyester Fiber

Ambercycle and Benma have partnered to scale the production of cycora® staple fibers by leveraging their combined expertise and Benma's direct investment in Ambercycle's technology scale-up

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BMW Group scores circular economy win with high-voltage batteries

Long-term partnership with SK tes - High-voltage batteries to be recycled, with the reclaimed secondary raw materials fed back into the value chain - Closed loop for cobalt, nickel and lithium - Global rollout on cards

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Electric fungi

The biobattery that needs to be fed

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17 January 202514 January 2025

This is our time: Working on biodegradable plastics

TNO researchers create AI model to develop new bioplastics

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Driving collaboration and innovation in manufacturing

A new online community facilitates expert collaboration across diverse fields for more sustainable manufacturing

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The Future of Plastics Lies in Bioplastics and Advanced Biotechnology

Using bacteria isolated from various environments has enabled AIMPLAS to successfully reduce biodegradation times

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Bayer and Neste to Collaborate on Developing Feedstocks for Renewable Fuels

The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly scale winter canola in the US as a biomass-based feedstock to meet growing demand for renewable fuel / Bayer aims to launch hybrid TruFlex winter canola in the US in 2027, delivering excellent product stability and performance / Overall goal is to help decarbonize the transportation sector with advancing innovative crops for renewable fuels, such as sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel

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16 January 202514 January 2025

Cloverdale Paint and Celanese Partner to Offer Sustainable Paint Solutions Created with Carbon Capture Technology

Celanese will convert captured CO2 from industrial CO2 emissions into a methanol building block which makes up part of vinyl acetate-based emulsions used as a raw material in the manufacturing of paints

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From CO2 to acetaldehyde: towards greener industrial chemistry

Scientists led by EPFL, the University of Copenhagen, and Shanghai University have developed a copper catalyst that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into acetaldehyde, a key chemical used in manufacturing. The breakthrough offers a green alternative to fossil-fuel-based processes

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15 January 202510 January 2025

Rebel Fuels launches to transform waste CO2 into carbon-neutral fuels

Rebel Fuels plants are establishing a circular carbon economy that repurposes waste streams into valuable, sustainable fuel products

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India Plans to Develop Top Grade Bioeconomy

Government is supporting the growth of bio-based manufacturing in sectors ranging from chemical to health and nutrition - generating both opportunities and risks

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14 January 202513 January 2025

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), December 2024

Let's take a look at what happened in December 2024 at RCI:

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A Step Forward in Recycling: The RECLAIM Project and Its Innovative Equipment for Plastic Waste

This portable system is designed to address a critical need in remote areas where building waste treatment plants is unfeasible

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East Africa could be a Leader in Bioeconomy Innovation

There is great potential, but a lack of funds for the implementation of new technologies as well as a lack of knowhow in agricultural production and bioprocessing inhibit progress

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BU Scientists make breakthrough in self-repairing plastic

A new study has made advances in the development of plastic that can fix itself after it has been cracked or broken into pieces

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13 January 20258 January 2025

Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels

The MIT spinout Emvolon is placing its repurposed engines next to methane sources, to generate greener methanol and other chemicals

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USDA to survey farmers on land ownership, finances

The information gathered through the survey will influence national and state policymaking decisions

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10 January 202510 January 2025

EU-funded project PYSOLO: Free webinar „Facing High-Temperature CSP for energy applications”

Four speakers of the one-hour-session will dive into the challenges currently faced by CSP technologies for energy applications

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Aramco, TotalEnergies and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC) assess the development of a sustainable aviation fuels unit

This collaboration will draw on the expertise of the three partners to develop a production unit of sustainable aviation fuel by converting local residues from the circular economy, such as used cooking oil and animal fats

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Neste to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Air New Zealand marking the airline’s largest purchase of SAF to date

The SAF will be used by Air New Zealand at Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO) international airports through to February 2026

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9 January 20255 January 2025

BAU trade fair 2024: Mushroom materials as a biogenic material source

Fraunhofer researchers present at the BAU trade fair a prefabricated façade element that combines integrated photovoltaics, electricity generation, weather protection and thermal insulation made of mushroom material

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Green Science Alliance produced MOF (Metal Organic Framework), PCP (Porous Coordination Polymer) from waste PET bottle

With a new development, all kinds of terephthalic acid based MOF can be produced from waste PET bottle with cheap cost

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CO2-eating bacteria recycles carbon from chimney smoke directly into new products

New research from Aarhus University has revealed how we can make it much cheaper to capture and convert CO2 from industry for usable products. The research has just been published in Nature Communications

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Palm oil imports to the European Union continue to dwindle 

EU demand for palm oil continues to decline, as is once again confirmed by the EU Commission's import figures. The decrease is partly due to EU regulations requiring proof of deforestation-free supply chains

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8 January 20255 January 2025

Neste introduces co-processed renewable Neste RE feedstock for the polymers and chemicals industry

By co-processing renewable raw materials such as used cooking oil together with fossil crude oil it is possible to produce a drop-in feedstock for the production of plastics and chemicals

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Considering delayed non-dilutive sources of financing, CARBIOS postpones construction of its Longlaville PET biorecycling plant for 6 to 9 months

CARBIOS maintains a robust available cash position of 112 million euros on 30 November 2024, confirms major advances in commercial contract negotiations and makes changes to its Governance

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Global Bioplastics Update at EBC24

Despite their large capacity shares, biopolymers such as PLA, polyethylene (PE), and PTT recorded some of the lowest utilization rates this year

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Ascend produces bio-circular performance chemicals, PA66

Derived from used cooking oil, the resulting nylon 6,6 has a 25% lower product carbon footprint than nylon 6,6 made from fossil-fuel derived feedstock

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7 January 20252 January 2025

PlasticsFatE: Newsletter December 2024

Welcome to the latest news from our project

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Bioplastics: Paving the Way to Meet EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation Goals

The PPWR places significant emphasis on sustainable packaging solutions, with biobased plastics emerging as a key enabler of the EU’s circular economy and climate neutrality goals

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Futerro closes its first external fund-raising for its biorefinery project in Europe

With an estimated total investment of €500 million, the project aims to build Europe's first fully integrated, circular and sustainable biorefinery

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Call of the European plastics industry to the EU Commission

Eighteen industry stakeholders across the plastic value chain signed a call for immediate efforts to promote a resilient, innovative, sustainable European plastics value chain

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Technip Energies and LanzaTech Awarded Funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for Commercializing Breakthrough CO2 to Ethylene Technology

Project SECURE aims to provide an integrated commercial process which takes captured carbon dioxide from ethylene production and recycles it with low carbon intensity hydrogen to create sustainable ethanol and ethylene

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6 January 202520 December 2024

Covestro to invest in Pilot Plant for Recycling of Elastomers

Development and construction project of a state-of-the-art pilot plant at Covestro's site in Leverkusen, Germany

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Sustainable packaging: Council signs off on new rules for less waste and more re-use in the EU

Labelling, marking and information requirements (e.g. on material composition or recycled content) should facilitate consumer sorting and consumer choices

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Bioeconomy report: Germany needs too much land abroad for agriculture

Synergies and contradictions between different utilization options must be carefully examined, for example between material and energy use, according to the recent report

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BASF and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics

The composition of plastic waste shall be reliably and precisely identified during the recycling process and thus improve the quality of recycled plastics