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27 February 202427 February 2024

Renewable Materials Conference 2024 – Almost final program, workshops and booths still available

World’s largest conference on chemicals and materials based on biomass, CCU or chemical recycling

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Free webinar: All About RC(I)

Discussing the Renewable Carbon Initiative and Strategy, 29 February 2024 – 14:00 to 15:00 (CET)

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IS2H4C: Industrial areas become industrial hubs for the Circular Economy

A new project aims to establish four industrial hubs: in the Netherlands, Turkey, the Basque Country and Germany, in which he focus is on innovative technologies such as carbon capture and electrolysis

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CARBIOS and De Smet Engineers & Contractors enter engineering partnership for construction of world’s first PET biorecycling plant

Carbios first commercial facility will play a key role in the fight against plastic pollution by offering an industrial-scale solution for the enzymatic depolymerization of PET waste to accelerate a circular economy

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26 February 202421 February 2024

Legal assessment on the EU packaging regulation PPWR: Special rules for plastic packaging not compatible with EU law

According to a new report by the international law firm Dentons the European Commission laws discriminate with a high probability against plastic packaging

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How CCU Platforms Stack Up

Companies like Carbon Sink LLC, CapCO2 Solutions, and HYCO1 have developed on-site carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology platforms capable of turning waste CO2 streams into high-value products

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Microsoft-backed clean jet fuel startup fires up new CO2 converter

Twelve uses a CO2 electrochemical reactor - called OPUS - that will be at the center of its first commercial SAF production plant under construction in Moses Lake, Washington

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23 February 202422 February 2024

Advanced Recycling on the Rise – Rapid Growth in Capacities at Global and European level

The update and expansion of the nova-Institute's report "Mapping of advanced plastic waste recycling technologies and their global capacities" provides a detailed insight into technological advances, identifies key players in the field and describes the current state of advanced recycling in Europe and worldwide

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World’s First Pilot Plant for Bio-Based Aniline

Opening ceremony with guests from the world of politics and science

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Twelve Launches First Commercial-Scale SAF Production Facility

The plant will run on hydropower and use CO2 captured from a nearby ethanol plant, which will be fed through OPUS and turned into synthetic gas, which is basis of SAF

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22 February 202420 February 2024

UC engineers’ CO2 conversion helps industry, addresses climate

National research team led by UC professor develops more efficient system to address climate change - a new approach to converting CO2 into ethylene

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Rumpke and Eastman join forces to expand recycling of PET waste

Rumpke will begin collecting and sorting hard-to-recycle and colored PET packaging waste, and will provide 100 percent of this waste stream as feedstock to Eastman’s molecular recycling process

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Alt.Leather’s $1.1 million seed round marks a new era in Australian bio-based textiles

Alt.Leather’s first 100% bio-based leather alternative contains zero plastics and utilises agricultural waste to make textiles

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21 February 202416 February 2024

H&S completes set-up of a recycling plant for end-of-life mattresses in the Netherlands

Newly built recycling plant with RetourMatras to convert PU foam from 200,000 mattresses into repolyols annually

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Fermentation revolution?

Trash becomes treasure as bio-waste yields valuable acetone and isopropanol

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20 February 202416 February 2024

Capturing greenhouse gases with the help of light

Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing a new method to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. It involves molecules that become acidic when exposed to light. Their new process requires much less energy than conventional technologies

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Circular economy and green products at SILBAERG

The new boards are made using Fuse Tape from Sachsenleinen and processed into A.L.D.-tech.® Hemp Preforms using Dry-Fiber-Placement technology

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19 February 20247 February 2024

The EU has fired the starting gun for the race to deploy carbon dioxide removals in Europe

Positioned as a frontrunner in carbon removal technology, Europe’s policy frameworks are likely to be picked up across the world

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Transforming textiles into bricks: FabBRICK

The use of various waste-derived, biologically inspired, technologically advanced innovative materials has been increasing in line with many concerns and goals recently

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16 February 20246 February 2024

Home compostability certification for Metsä Board paperboards

All these paperboards can be recycled after using or be composted with your biowaste

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The Unbearable Complexity of Defining Recycling 

What is recycling and how can it be measured? This question may sound quite trivial at first but on a closer look turns out to be rather complex – and vital

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15 February 20245 February 2024

Dressed to Impress: McDonald’s Debuts New, More Sustainable Uniforms in the U.S.

These new aprons, jeans and graphic T-shirts are made with innovative CiCLO® technology, which enables polyester fibers to biodegrade like wool

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Letter to the CBE JU community

Nicoló Giacomuzzi-Moore will be the new Executive Director for the CBE JU

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Borealis appoints Mirjam Mayer as Vice President Circular Economy Solutions

Prior to Borealis she gained extensive experience as a consultant with McKinsey for several years

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14 February 20244 February 2024

Green Methanol for the Circular Economy – New Catalyst Developed at LIKAT

This process is highly selective (it produces virtually no by-products) and completely dispenses with fossil raw materials

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Sonichem is leading a £600K Innovate UK-funded consortium to revolutionise the automotive industry with sustainable, bio-based materials

One emerging solution to this problem is biorefining, which offers a method of processing low-carbon feedstocks into intermediate chemicals that can be made into renewable plastics for vehicles

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Transforming textile waste

Berlin-based start-up Re-Fresh Global today launches the EPR-Promise campaign in preparation for the EU EPR 2025 regulation on sustainable circular economy in the textile industry

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Bayreuth scientists find a close-loop recycling process for one of the most widely used plastics

A pioneering development enables the targeted replication of the chemical structure of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), a plastic that has been difficult to imitate until now, and shows great potential for sustainable alternatives in the plastics industry

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13 February 20244 February 2024

Aston University scientists to tackle challenges of converting rice straw into the next generation of biofuels

Plant dry matter such as rice straw is seen as a better alternative to current crops because it doesn’t affect food security

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12 February 20243 February 2024

Breakthrough for an Alternative to Crude Oil & Palm Oil: COLIPI Receives €1.8 Million Seed Funding for Further Development of CO2-Neutral Climate OilTM

Start up is going to enter the market with its Climate Oil and scale precision fermentation processes to 10 cubic meters the pilot scale

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Products made from oxo-degradable plastic: the General Court endorses the prohibition on the placing on the market

The European legislature did not make a manifest error when it adopted a prohibition in line with the objective of protecting the environment and human health

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France made composting compulsory. What does it mean for the bioeconomy?

France already has had the third highest rates of circular material usage in the EU after the Netherlands and Belgium in first and second place

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9 February 20242 February 2024

Drax to launch new business focused on becoming the global leader in large-scale carbon removals

New research published today by Foresight Transitions highlights the critical and cost-effective role that BECCS will play in aiding the United States in the delivery of its ambitious decarbonisation

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“All Set for Carbon Capture in Rakkestad”

KANFA is awarded the first full-scale carbon capture plant for a Waste-to-Energy facility

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King’s scientists discover enzyme used in laundry detergent can recycle single-use plastics

New method of chemical recycling achieves full degradation of plastics within 24 hours

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8 February 20247 February 2024

Navigating a Renewable Carbon Future with the Program of the CO₂-Based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2024

Redefining CCU Technology and Empowering Power-to-X Solutions

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Carbon in concrete: Building on CO2

A team led by Pietro Lura is developing a process for integrating biochar into concrete

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Linde Starts up Supply of Clean Hydrogen and Captured Carbon Dioxide to Celanese

Celanese will use the captured carbon dioxide and resulting clean hydrogen, along with other carbon dioxide sources, as feedstock to produce green methanol

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7 February 202431 January 2024

BASF and Envision Energy enter a collaboration to drive sustainable energy solutions 

E-methanol holds significant potential as sustainable energy carrier replacing fossil fuels in various industries

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Playmobil’s toddler portfolio undergoes rebranding

Playmobil has rebranded its toddler line as Playmobil Junior and now solely relies on plant-based materials for all its products

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bse Methanol selected as technology supplier for Project Green, Nigeria

Nigeria imports 100 per cent of its methanol

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Local Manufacturing of Sustainable Packaging: A Win-win for Business and the Environment

Consumers are showing a growing preference for sustainable products, and are even ready to pay a premium for them. Research indicates that around 65% of consumers globally would choose sustainable products and services if available, and a significant majority are open to spending more on eco-friendly options

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TIPA to show pioneering compostable solutions at Packaging Innovations

Global packaging developer, TIPA, is set to preview its pioneering range of compostable packaging solutions in Birmingham, UK, this February

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5 February 202429 January 2024

Braskem and Shell join forces to produce circular polypropylene from mixed plastic waste

Shell will upgrade a variety of pyrolysis oils into virgin-quality circular feedstocks at the Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk, Netherlands and supply the Braskem plant in Wesseling, Germany

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2 February 202429 January 2024

UBQ Materials Unveils its Diversified Product Portfolio, Expanding Range of its Globally Patented Waste-to-Materials Technology

New Portfolio Empowers Businesses to Select the UBQ™ Line that Meets Both Environmental and Performance Requirements

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Roquette Isosorbide Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification

International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS for POLYSORB® isosorbide and the following product grades: POLYSORB® PSA, POLYSORB® LP, POLYSORB® PA

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Chemicals Industry needs Sustainable Feedstocks to complete their net-zero journey

Although chemicals industry strategies include energy efficiency, CCS, green energy and advanced recycling, these measures alone will not get firms to net zero

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BASF and Inditex make a breakthrough in textile-to-textile recycling with loopamid, the first circular nylon 6 entirely based on textile waste 

The technology behind loopamid enables recycling of polyamide 6 discarded textiles into new, virgin-quality synthetic fibers and materials

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1 February 202424 January 2024

Collaborative Project PRIMED: Redesigning the Primary Sector for Maximizing Bioeconomy Development

The consortium of 12 European partners will develop diverse fair value chains to convert underutilized biomass resources into value-added bio-based products

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Pryme N.V. produces first oil

Pryme produced the first lots of pyrolysis oil by chemical recycling of post-consumer and post-industrial waste