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26 November 202519 November 2025

BioBond White Paper Redefines Plastic Pollution Debate: Introducing ‘Good’ vs. ‘Bad’ Microplastics

BioBond's work is directly applicable to the massive $190 billion coatings and adhesives sector, which currently relies heavily on petroleum-based products

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Monument Chemical Launches Poly-CO2®: High Performance Polyols from Captured Carbon

The company is the first US manufacturer to produce CO₂ polyols based on renewable carbon technology from Econic Technologies

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25 November 202520 November 2025

Bayreuth Researchers Discover New Pathways to Green Hydrogen

Hydrogen directly from seawater – without the use of additional reagents? With a photocatalyst capable of clean hydrogen production directly from seawater it should be possible

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2024 Data Reveals a Deepening Crisis of the European plastics recycling industry  

The sector is facing growing pressure from high production and energy costs, falling demand, and increasing volumes of low-priced, unregulated imports from outside the region

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Free Webinar: Success Stories RCI 2025 and Outlook to 2026 – Project results and position papers

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) gives another free webinar presenting its past achievements and future goals

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Popping the cork on new low-cost carbon capture method

The process uses water and pressure to remove carbon dioxide from emissions at half the cost of current methods

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SMX and Bio-Packaging make green packaging more trustworthy

SMX and Bio-Packaging aim to help local converters access data that can speed Singapore’s shift toward a zero-waste circular economy

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24 November 202520 November 2025

Unique 50% discount on all nova reports during the winter season

Decisions of a strategic nature depend on reliable market information

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Launch of EMB Future Science Brief on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

An international working group of thirteen researchers has presented its findings and clear recommendations on the Monitoring, Verification and Reporting for mCDR activities

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Northern partnership to drive UK’s bio-based economic future

Research undertaken at the University of York will underpin a new regional partnership which aims to boost clean growth, create thousands of jobs, and attract major investment in the bio-based economy

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From Premiums To Parity: How Fashion for Good Is Rewriting the Economics of New Materials

Next-gen materials hold promise for addressing complex sustainability and circularity challenges, yet their path to mainstream adoption has been severely hindered by a fundamental economic barrier: price

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Can music change how we perceive plastic waste?

Aduro Clean Technologies presents the video “Chemistry Goes Music” and brings the break-down of plastic waste into renewable building blocks to life through music

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Braskem unveiled bio-based product innovations at K 2025

Under its sustainable portfolio, Braskem launched products and partnerships that bring sustainability and innovation to life across packaging, healthcare, hygiene, and consumer goods

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Kawasaki Heavy unveils Japan’s biggest ‘air carbon removal’ pilot, plans megatonne system by 2030

Kawasaki aims to scale the system to a commercial unit capable of capturing 500,000 to 1 million tonnes annually by 2030 - one of Asia’s largest announced DAC deployments

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21 November 202519 November 2025

DP CleanTech wins contract for revolutionary 50MWe biomass cogeneration project in Spain

La Robla Green Project in Castilla y León is a landmark initiative set to reshape Europe’s renewable fuels landscape

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CARBIOS and Wankai New Materials, a subsidiary of Zhink Group, are committed to the large-scale deployment of CARBIOS’ PET biorecycling technology in Asia

With the first step being the construction of a PET biorecycling plant in China

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20 November 202514 November 2025

Clariant catalysts will power the Ecoplanta: Europe’s first waste-to-methanol plant

New facility will use Enerkem gasification technology and Clariant’s catalytic technologies are perfectly suited to the Ecoplanta process

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19 November 202514 November 2025

Promoting the Circular Economy Together: Companies of Schwarz Group Reaffirm Partnership with Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Reaffirming the continuing commitment to the partnership, which has been in place since 2018, until 2030 - resource sovereignty by advancing a systematic circular economy

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CEM Biofuture Platform Initiative launches Declaration on Sustainable Chemicals and Materials

The Declaration outlines a shared international vision to foster the use of bio-based, recycled, and captured carbon feedstocks

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LanzaTech Secures €40 Million EU Innovation Fund Grant for first-of-its-kind integrated CCUS project in Norway

By utilizing CO rich furnace gas from the ferroalloy production process, this project strategically links carbon capture and utilization (CCU) with carbon capture and storage (CCS)

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UPM joins Cefic to strengthen the role of renewable chemistry in Europe

With its state-of-the-art biorefinery in Leuna, Germany, UPM is pioneering the production of wood-based biochemicals – renewable alternatives to fossil-based materials used in packaging, textiles, and automotive applications

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18 November 202517 November 2025

BASF commences production of the first products from the core of the Verbund at its Zhanjiang Verbund site

With several downstream plants the new capacities will further enhance BASF’s capabilities to meet fast-growing market demand in China and across the Asia Pacific region

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EPA Issues Proposed Registration Decision for Biotalys’ EVOCA™ Biofungicide

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Initiates Public Participation Procedure

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ICIS and CPCIF Unveil New Study Revealing Wide-Ranging Impacts of EU Circularity Regulation on Global Recycled Plastics Demand

The study forecasts a sharp increase in demand for recycled content, particularly for polyethylene (rPE), polypropylene (rPP), and polyethylene terephthalate (rPET)

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The Realistic Future Of Carbon Capture: Pure Streams, Right Locations, Smart Uses

The point is to use it only where it is the lowest cost path to real emissions cuts - capture is not a giant chemical plant bolted on top of another plant

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EU, French laws to boost circular fashion demand

European laws will boost circular demand by making sustainable production more competitive

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17 November 202512 November 2025

TripleW launches world’s first food waste-based PLA bioplastic with support of Sulzer Chemtech

The new PLA is produced from food industry side streams, such as bakery processing rejects and expired logistic returns, significantly reducing the sector’s ecological footprint

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PIRELLI equips McLaren W1 with first supercar tyres made from more than 50% bio-based and recycled materials

Extreme performance meets tyre sustainability: the three bespoke tyres developed for McLaren’s latest supercar are made with over 50% bio-based and recycled materials1, as verified by a third party according to ISO 14021

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STEROPE: Pioneering Europe’s new model of carbon circularity and industrial decarbonization

Transforming industrial CO₂ into sustainable fuels for aviation, maritime and chemicals through innovation, industrial symbiosis and real-scale refinery integration

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14 November 202510 November 2025

Extract fertilizer from air and water

Pulsed electrolysis opens a path toward sustainable production of nitrogen compounds such as ammonia and urea

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Avantium’s Releaf® Receives CPBR Approval for Recycling in Japan

This approval represents an important condition for the adoption of PEF in Japan’s beverage packaging industry

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Blue Circle Olefins secures funding and selects Rotterdam to build its first 100% circular Olefins production facility

The highly electrified 200 kton plant will convert sustainable methanol into 100% circular ethylene and propylene, the basic building blocks for about 60% of all products produced by the chemical industry in Europe

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China Begins Construction of 150MW Green Methanol Plant for Maritime Fuel Exports

Combining renewable hydrogen from 150MW of wind and solar-powered electrolysis with CO₂ sourced from biomass gasification, expects 197,200 tonnes per year of green methanol

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13 November 202510 November 2025

New Report: Mapping of Global Advanced Plastic Recycling Capacities

Comprehensive data on 390 planned, installed and operating plants worldwide – Europe takes the lead in advanced recycling technologies

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Compostable by Design Platform launches new industry guidelines to support Europe’s circular economy

The Guidelines provide a science-based framework for designing, testing and introducing compostable packaging and products that support bio-waste recycling

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dm-drogerie markt Launches New Sustainable Laundry Detergent

From this november, the first to Denkmit detergents, colour and all-purpose laundry detergent, will be available in dm’s more than 2.150 German store

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12 November 202511 November 2025

Last Chance to Register – Advanced Recycling Conference 2025

Alongside core-topics like plastics and polymer recycling, this year’s program explores new developments in biochemical, textile and automotive recycling, plus digital tools supporting scalable solutions for circular systems

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Final Chance to Submit Your Abstract: CO₂-based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2026

Leading international event on CO₂ as feedstock invites innovators to showcase their advances in Carbon Capture and Utilisation Technology and Research

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Patented technology against plastic waste: aevoloop secures €8.25 million

Seed financing of around €3.25 million and just under €5 million in grants from the EU and the State of Saxony pave the way to market launch

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Illinois researchers convert food waste into jet fuel, boosting circular economy

The researchers convert food waste into biocrude oil through a thermochemical conversion process called hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) to get the biocrude oil, and they identified cobalt molybdenum as the most effective commercially available catalyst

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11 November 20257 November 2025

From Waste to Value: Recycling Automotive Shredder Residue and Bio-Waste into High-Value Feedstock

A new research study by ETH Zurich, in collaboration with BASF SE, has investigated an alternative route for mixed plastic waste streams from end-of-life vehicles

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Hyundai Motor Group and Rhode Island School of Design Continue Partnership Exploring Advanced Biodesign and the Future of Mobility 

The Regeneration Studio, led from RISD’s Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, is bringing to life entirely new concepts in bio-innovation, examining natural environments, systems, processes, and organisms with the intent to design a more circular and less harmful human-planet relationship

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10 November 20257 November 2025

ANDRITZ collaborates with Tandem Repeat on solutions to produce novel sustainable fiber

The two companies aim to support the textile industry’s transition toward more sustainable production and alternatives to conventional synthetic fibers

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Biochar reimagined: Scientists unlock record-breaking strength in wood-derived carbon

Toronto researchers new study is opening the door to a new generation of sustainable carbon materials for use in energy devices, filters, and structural applications

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Climate report: Earth on dangerous path but rapid action can avert the worst outcomes

“The 2025 state of the climate report: A planet on the brink” cites global data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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7 November 20256 November 2025

TUHH start-up EveryCarbon receives €2.5 million in funding from SPRIND

Startup revolutionises the use of organic waste

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Turning trash into treasure: Scientists transform waste plastics into high-value carbon materials

Researchers have discovered how to transform discarded plastics into valuable carbon-based materials that can clean the environment and power next-generation energy devices

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UFOP status report ‘Biodiesel & Co. 2024/2025’ published

UFOP call for a fuel strategy

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Fashion industry failing on certified cotton, increasingly dependent on synthetic materials, reveals 2025 Cotton Rankings 

The fashion industry is undermining the potential of sustainable cotton for farmers and the environment by relying on uncertified cotton and synthetic fibres, finds a new report published today by Solidaridad and Good On You. The 2025 Cotton Rankings, covering the cotton sourcing of the top 100 fashion brands, also reveals that the fashion industry still lacks transparency on their purchasing practices

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6 November 20254 November 2025

ARC 2025 Interview Series: Innovators at work – Mastering complex and difficult mixed plastic waste through innovative technologies

With Thomas Blocher, Business Manager Chemical Recycling, BUSS ChemTech AG