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25 July 202320 July 2023

Flexible packaging leader Parkside laser-focused on sustainable lidding film solutions with ParkScribe® technology

UK-based flexible packaging specialist Parkside has launched a revolutionary range of sustainable lidding films as a next-generation solution for brands seeking to solve their packaging sustainability challenges, as part of its Sustainable 7 product strategy

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24 July 202324 July 2023

Smart Carbon Cycles Require Advanced Recycling – Call for Abstracts for the Advanced Recycling Conference 2023

Advanced recycling plays a crucial role in the quest to replace 1 Gt of fossil carbon per year with renewable carbon sources.

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Carbon Capture Scotland to capture and re-use green CO2

Green biogenic CO from Iona Capital’s biomethane plants to be captured and re-used as dry ice

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Avnos Inc. Secures Funding and Strategic Partnerships From ConocoPhillips, JetBlue Ventures and Shell Ventures, Totaling Over $80M 

Industrial leaders drawn to new cost-effective Direct Air Capture technology that also produces water

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Researchers make bioplastic sheets with pineapple stems from agricultural waste

A team of researchers from universities in Thailand and Malaysia have collaborated to develop a unique kind of bioplastic sheet that is good for the environment and can decompose naturally

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PreZero signs cooperation agreement on plastic circularity

PreZero and Shell Chemicals Europe (‘Shell’) aim to develop a sustainable chemical recycling solution along the value chain for currently hard to recycle plastic streams

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21 July 202319 July 2023

Alfa Laval and RWDC Industries announce joint development agreement to advance circular economy solutions

Combined expertise will accelerate scale-up of sustainable materials production to reduce global reliance on single-use, petroleum-based plastics

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19 July 202317 July 2023

Borealis to acquire Rialti S.p.A., a leading European producer of recycled polypropylene compounds

Borealis announces the signing of an agreement to acquire Rialti, one of Europe’s leading producers of mechanically recycled polypropylene (PP) compounds for injection moulding and extrusion

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Can Cellulose Fibers Fill the Cotton Gap?

Cellulose as a Raw Material Could Be the Answer to Future Textile Demand

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18 July 202317 July 2023

Shaping the sustainable fibre future with cellulose fibres – Abstract submissions open for the Celullose Fibres Conference 2024

Rising demand for renewable fibres meets bio-based and biodegradable cellulose fibres as a breakthrough solution for the future

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17 July 202317 December 2024

No Sustainable Future Without Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU)

Why We Need Much More Political Recognition and Support for CCU

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Chemicals in transition

The three pillars for transforming chemical value chains

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14 July 202311 July 2023

INEOS Styrolution partners with EGN and Tomra to recycle post-consumer polystyrene waste into food contact polystyrene

Process enables closed-loop circularity for polystyrene (PS) at food contact quality levels. First large-scale mechanical recycling facility to process recycled PS suitable for food packaging. Start-up expected by mid-2025

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12 July 20236 July 2023

Government Minister visits Celtic Renewables on launch of new Circular Economy Bill

New legislation to tackle waste by improving recycling rates and increasing reuse has been published by the Scottish Government

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Lummus Technology and MOL Group Establish Partnership for Advanced Waste Plastic Recycling

Underscores Lummus and MOL’s commitment to developing sustainable solutions for the circular economy

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11 July 20236 July 2023

IFF Pioneers Designed Enzymatic Biomaterials Technology Platform to Deliver Sustainable Biopolymers

IFF announced the launch of its new-to-the-world Designed Enzymatic Biomaterials (DEB) technology for the development of biobased materials at scale

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10 July 20236 July 2023

Study shows hemp captures as much carbon as forests when used for construction materials

Titled "Unlocking Carbon Transfer: Wood and Hemp for Sustainable Construction", this study delves into the environmental implications of utilizing these biomass sources in the construction industry

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EPFL spin-off closes the loop on PET recycling

EPFL spin-off DePoly has developed a method for recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET) at ambient temperature, even when it’s dirty or mixed with other plastics. The firm confirmed the feasibility of its method with a pilot capable of processing 50 metric tons per year. Having recently raised CHF 12.3 million, DePoly is now building a pilot plant with 10 times that capacity

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How can a shift to a circular economy in the EU contribute to a climate-neutral Europe?

Shifting to a circular economy model is perceived as crucial for the European Union to achieve its goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2050

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7 July 20234 July 2023

BioBased Circular Proposal with Avantium selected by National Growth Fund for funding to make plant-based materials

The Dutch cabinet announced that the National Growth Fund (Nationaal Groeifonds) has selected the BioBased Circular (BBC) proposal[i] for funding

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Poland provides untapped opportunities for Europe’s bio-based sector and green growth

The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), Europe’s leading industry association putting circularity, innovation and sustainability at the heart of the European bioeconomy, has published an updated version of its Country Report on Poland

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Compostable Plastics: Unlocking the Potential in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

10 Member States are at risk of missing the target of 65% recycling of packaging waste by 2025

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6 July 20234 July 2023

Bloom Labs unveils protein-based alternatives for circular economy

Bloom Labs, a company at the forefront of material science, has developed next-generation alternatives to natural and synthetic fibres, as well as plastics to accelerate the global transition towards a circular economy

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5 July 20233 July 2023

Lower Carbon Footprint With Proven High Performance: Röhm Launches Plexiglas® Proterra Molding Compounds On The Market

Röhm offers customers two new ways to lower their product carbon footprint

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Biggest ever EU LIFE textile funding to the recycling system OnceMore®

In its largest funding ever, EU LIFE has granted 10 million EURO for a project to scale up OnceMore®, an innovative, first-of-a-kind industrial-scale system for recycling of blended textile waste. The project is a collaboration between Swedish Forest industry group Södra and Austrian company Lenzing

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4 July 20233 July 2023

New Joint Venture to Boost Circularity of Secondary Plastic Packaging

LyondellBasell and AFA Nord, a leading recycler of agricultural film, have agreed to create a 50:50 joint venture that intends to recycle post commercial flexible secondary packaging waste

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Infinite plastic recycling: The technology is ready, but what about legislation?

New chemical recycling technologies are creating an infinite loop for the plastic ecosystem, addressing waste streams that currently lack suitable recycling processes

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3 July 202328 June 2023

BASF Venture Capital invests in startup DePoly SA

DePoly develops low-energy and selective chemical recycling technologies for polyester waste streams. The company establishes a sustainable source of raw materials from post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste

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30 June 20234 October 2024

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), June 2023

Let's take a look at what happened in June 2023 at RCI

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29 June 202322 June 2023

Henkel Adhesive Technologies is driving progress towards climate-positive operations

Henkel has a longstanding track-record as a leader in sustainability for decades and constantly drives transformational change to create value for its stakeholders

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Carbon2Chem®: Pilot plant for methanol production starts operation at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s steel mill in Duisburg

The methanol plant was moved to the steel mill to get it operated with gases from ongoing steel production

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Trojan Horse Polymers for a Circular Economy

New strategy for recyclable polyolefins

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28 June 202322 June 2023

A global first for circularity: Södra and Lenzing receive largest EU LIFE subsidy for recycling project

EU funding for textile recycling project on an industrial scale. Huge boost to circularity. Lenzing and Södra – a long-standing partnership for systemic change

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New living lab Biobased Boulevard to encourage use of natural building materials

Entrepreneurs, researchers and clients can use the living lab to test innovations

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Anniversary of BRAIN Biotech AG

30 years for a bio-based future

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27 June 202326 June 2023

Clean, sustainable fuels made ‘from thin air’ and plastic waste

Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the sun

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Covestro receives Best Polymer Producers Award for polycarbonate

Supplier award ceremony at the conference "A Circular Future with Plastics" in Lyon

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Best Polymer Producers Award für Polycarbonat

Covestro erhält auf der Konferenz „Eine zirkuläre Zukunft mit Kunststoffen“ in Lyon den Best Polymer Producers Award für Polycarbonat

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26 June 202320 June 2023

Clariant launches Desi Pak® ECO with new bio-based moisture-adsorbing packets

Specially-designed packaging solution focused on using raw materials and transportation packaging that have a lower environmental impact

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ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech announce first ethanol samples from commercial flagship carbon capture and utilisation facility in Ghent, Belgium

Facility employing LanzaTech’s cutting-edge carbon recycling process couples decarbonization technology with chemical production to advance EU’s 2030 Climate Target Plan and a circular economy

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Direct Air Capture and the Circular Carbon Economy

A New Approach to Emissions Reduction

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Stora Enso is laying the foundation for the future of circular packaging in Oulu, Finland

The future of packaging is circular and to be achieved with solutions that are net positive for both climate and biodiversity

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23 June 202319 June 2023

Neste decides to invest in liquefied waste plastic upgrading unit at its Porvoo refinery

Important milestone in scaling up chemical recycling. Investment of 111 million euros

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A Carbon Capture Utilisation future

Avantium’s Chief Technology Officer Gert-Jan Gruter makes a case for Carbon Capture Utilisation as the “golden ticket” for a net-zero future

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22 June 202319 June 2023

First CBE JU grant agreements provide €116 million for circular bio-based sector

Following its first call for proposals, the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has recently signed its first 21 grant agreements

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21 June 202316 June 2023

Asahi Kasei and Mitsui establish supply and procurement system for bio-methanol

Asahi Kasei plans to use the bio-methanol procured from Mitsui to produce engineering plastics in Japan with a lower carbon footprint than the current product lineup

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Innovative Carbon Capture and Use Technologies: Transforming Emissions into Valuable Resources

This article will explore some of the most promising CCU technologies and their new economic opportunities

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20 June 202315 June 2023

Plastics Europe welcomes UNEP’s step closer to a draft agreement on a global plastics treaty

In her opening speech, Virginia Janssens, Managing Director of Plastics Europe, made a plea for ‘a total market transformation that drastically reduces the influx of new plastics

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Plastic waste: agreement is just the start

Many fear that major plastics producers like the US, China and Saudi Arabia will only approve of better recycling. But the need to come into action is generally felt

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Microalgae for Carbon Capture

Harnessing Microalgae for Efficient Carbon Capture and Storage