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21 February 202316 February 2023

Global Bioenergies: First significant sales in 2022

Trade payables increased as a result of the negotiation of more favourable payment terms for the Company in connection with the initiation of production activities

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Vestas unveils circularity solution to end landfill for turbine blades

Newly discovered chemical technology developed within the CETEC initiative, and partnerships with Olin and Stena Recycling, the solution can be applied to blades currently in operation

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Bluepha PHA Global Product Launch Event Announcement

Bluepha has been working on a new generation of biodegradable material, Bluepha™ PHA for over 6 years, and now it's ready to go to market

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Neste, Uponor, Wastewise Group and Borealis enable chemical recycling of hard-to-recycle plastic waste into new high-quality plastic pipes

First production of cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipes based on feedstock from chemically recycled PEX waste. Project demonstrates chemical recycling can process hard-to-recycle waste plastic into high-quality polymer products

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20 February 202315 February 2023

Idemitsu and Toray Creating Japan’s First Biomass ABS Resin Supply Chain

Both companies aim to lower emissions from the plastics sector through their joint efforts

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Apollo develops tyres with 75% Sustainable Materials

Apollo Tyres, the leading tyre manufacturer, has developed tyres with 75% sustainable materials. This is aligned with Apollo Tyres’ sustainability roadmap of increasing the usage of sustainable raw material to 40% by 2030

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Carbon Capture and Utilisation: More Than Hiding CO2 for Some Time

New scientific paper shows that the actual impact of the CCU concept is difficult to assess, because it is highly technological and context-dependent and this can involve controversial discussions

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The Ocean Cleanup and the United Nations: Partnering with UNDP

The Ocean Cleanup and the United Nations Development Programme have joined forces to eliminate plastic pollution around the globe

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17 February 202314 February 2023

The Paper Bag releases guidelines for high-quality paper carrier bags

New document gives paper bag producers and their customers orientation on parameters that influence the resistance and durability of paper carrier bags

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We should pay more attention to rubber recycling

If we should start the recycling process with milling the tyre, we would end up with a fairly untreatable mixture of compounds

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LanzaTech and AMCI Acquisition Corp. II Announce Closing of Business Combination, Establishing First Public Carbon Capture and Transformation Company

In connection with the closing of the business, AMCI has been renamed LanzaTech Global, Inc. and from February 10, 2023 its common stock is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LNZA

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Thrifty trick for bacterial plastic upcycling

Implementation of a newly discovered metabolic pathway increases the CO2 efficiency of PET-utilizing bacteria

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16 February 202313 February 2023

Chevron Phillips Chemical deepens collaboration with Nexus Circular, securing contracted long-term supply of advanced recycled plastic feedstocks from new facility

Chevron Phillips Chemical helps accelerate the circular economy for plastics by aligning with Nexus Circular’s proven, commercial-scale advanced recycling technology to convert landfill-bound plastics into high-quality materials for the production of virgin-quality circular plastics

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Efforts to Regulate Plastic Pollution Likely to Increase in 2023

Actions by Congress and the Biden Administration indicate that regulation of plastic pollution and related activities will accelerate over the coming year

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15 February 202314 February 2023

The Future Sustainable Chemical and Materials Industry will be Based Entirely on Recycling, Biomass and CO₂

From 23 to 25 May 2023, the brightest stars of renewable materials will meet in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany). More than 500 participants are expected to attend the "Renewable Materials Conference 2023" (www.renewable-materials.eu) – the meeting point for global leaders in industry, science, and politics

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LyondellBasell and KIRKBI invest in APK to develop recycling technology

LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), a global leader in the chemical industry and KIRKBI A/S, the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO® brand, announce they have signed an agreement to make an investment in APK, which specializes in a unique solvent-based recycling technology for low density polyethylene (LDPE)

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14 February 20239 February 2023

How waste-eating bacteria digest complex carbons

New information could lead to bacteria-based platforms that recycle plastic and plant waste

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LEAK: Commission details subsidy-matching scheme for green industry

The leaked document, labelled ‘sensitive’ and seen by EURACTIV, intends to “specify the criteria for the assessment of the compatibility with the internal market of State aid measures”

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Upcycled plastic membrane helps clean up waste

Plant-derived biosolvents enable the sustainable conversion of plastic waste into valuable membrane materials

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13 February 202313 February 2023

Gaining momentum – Bio-based polymers grow at a CAGR of 14% between 2022 and 2027

Report on the global bio-based polymer market 2022 – A deep and comprehensive insight into this dynamically growing market

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German Vice Chancellor Dr. Robert Habeck visits flagship CCS project in Brevik, Norway

In Brevik, Heidelberg Materials is currently building the world's first industrial-scale carbon capture plant in the cement industry to capture and store 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year

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Teknor Apex Announces New Eco-Conscious Monprene® TPE with 35% sustainable content developed in Partnership with UBQ Materials

By replacing oil-based raw materials with UBQ™ in TPE formulations, Teknor Apex is helping to address the global waste crisis and reducing the carbon footprint of end products which utilize its TPE

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10 February 20238 February 2023

Flue2Chem: Putting carbon waste to work for net zero

Industry giants in the UK are joining forces in the first-ever cross-sector collaboration aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Flue2Chem project aims to convert industrial waste gases into chemicals that can be used to manufacture superior and more sustainable consumer products

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Flue2Chem: SCI, Unilever and 13 partners launch £5.4m net zero collaboration project

The £5.4m Flue2Chem Project is a two-year programme spearheaded by Unilever and SCI, with 13 other organisations involved

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Metsä Group receives Finland’s most startup-friendly company award for the second year running

Metsä Group has been honoured for its support of startup communities, advancing sustainable innovations related to various wood-based materials with investments, R&D and production support, thus helping startups bring their innovation to the masses

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Fashion for Good Sorting for Circularity Advances into the US Market

Project expands to the North-American market to drive fibre-to-fibre recycling

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9 February 20237 February 2023

Fairbrics Raises €22 M to Bring to Market its CO2-Based Polyester Fiber and Reduce the Textile Industry’s Carbon Footprint

€17 M come from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Program and 5 M€ from Partners to the Technology Upscaling Project

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Aker Carbon Capture enters Finnish Power-to-X market

The St1 Power-to-Methanol Lappeenranta project use the hard-to-abate carbon dioxide emissions from the limestone raw-material at the Finnsementti factory

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8 February 20237 February 2023

Outstanding start in January: Heimtextil 2023 showed great internationality and set the course for sustainable transformation

The Green Village with its Green Lectures paved the way for discussing with certifiers, industry experts and NGOs about solutions, best practices and challenges around sustainability in the contract business

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Holcim’s Carbon2Business project receives €109.8 million in EU funding

Carbon2Business is one of two projects in Germany and 17 projects in total that the EU is funding with around €1.8 billion from the innovation fund

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7 February 20236 February 2023

Bacteria really eat plastic

Scientists at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research found out, that bacteria can break down about one percent of the fed plastic per year into CO2 and other harmless substances

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6 February 20231 February 2023

Turning food waste into biodegradable bioplastics

Researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences received a $2.4 million USDA grant to create affordable bioplastics and reduce plastic waste remaining both on land and in the sea

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AIMPLAS collaborates in a new European project to make blueprint for reducing textile waste by 80%

The tExtended project started last December and will achieve this objective by developing and demonstrating effective textile recovery, waste valorization and recycling processes

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3 February 20237 February 2023

Taking Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) and Power-to-X to the next level – Final Program of the “Conference on CO₂-based Fuels and Chemicals 2023”

Leading international experts meet at one of the world’s key events on Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) and Power-to-X from 19-20 April 2023 in Cologne, Germany, and online

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New catalyst design could make better use of captured carbon, researchers say

University of Toronto scientists found a new catalyst design that could significantly improve the practicality of an electrochemical process that converts captured carbon dioxide into multi-carbon molecules

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Clothing reuse has a 70 times lower environmental impact reveals new study

EuRIC paper revealed that a massive 3kg of CO2 is saved for each high/medium-quality clothing that is reused

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Braskem joins the Renewable Carbon Initiative

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the global leader in biobased polymer production, has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative as part of its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality

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2 February 20237 February 2023

From Fibre Production to Recycling and Policy – The Final Program of the Cellulose Fibres Conference 2023

International experts will discuss hot topics along the entire cellulose fibre value chain at the upcoming Cellulose Fibres Conference, 8–9 March 2023 in Cologne and online

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University of Coimbra joins project to create a European Network for Circular Bioeconomy

With an estimated duration of three years and a budget of three million euros, funded by the European Union (EU), BioRural involves about two dozen partners from 14 different countries

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AFYREN chooses Thailand for its second biobased organic acids plant, entering a partnership project with Mitr Phol, a global leader in the sugar industry

Mitr Phol will optimize its industrial circular platform, “From Waste to Value” model with high value-added biobased outlets for its sugarcane co-products

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LVMH and Dow intend to collaborate to improve sustainable packaging across major perfume and cosmetics brands

Bio-based and circular plastics to be integrated into several of the beauty multinational’s product applications

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1 February 20234 October 2024

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

Lets take a look at what happened in January 2023 at RCI

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Braskem and Nexus Circular Strengthen Relationship Through a Long-Term Contract for Circular Plastic Feedstocks from New Advanced Recycling Facility

The contracted volumes of advanced recycled circular products from Nexus will support Braskem's strategic objective to sell 300 thousand metric tons of products with recycled content by 2025

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Phillips 66 Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification to Turn Oil from Waste Plastics into Feedstocks at its Sweeny Refinery

Texas refinery meets standards to process pyrolysis oil from hard-to-recycle waste plastics into sustainable feedstocks

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Small Grains, Big Impact

Hansgrohe switches to new, sustainable ABS material for chrome-plated product components

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31 January 202327 January 2023

PlasCO2 project: Greenhouse gas transformed into a raw material

Evonik has launched the PlasCO2 project together with three partners. The aim is to use carbon dioxide (CO2) as a raw material in the production of C4 chemicals

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“Fuels of the future”: Biofuel industry blames Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke for missed climate protection targets in the transport sector

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, supported by Federal Minister of Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, risks derailing climate change mitigation in the transport sector; the climate protection targets are becoming unachievable

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New hybrid catalyst could help decarbonization and make ethylene production more sustainable

Ames Laboratory scientists together with others from several Universities developed a way to use carbon dioxide as a feedstock powered by electricity

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HeiQ AeoniQ™ turns into a piece of garment for the first time by HUGO BOSS

HUGO BOSS reveals the first Polo Shirt replacing 87% polyester with HeiQ AeoniQ™ fiber

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30 January 202327 January 2023

Project Air to receive EUR 97 million under agreement with Innovation Fund

The European Union is supporting carbon-neutrality for the European chemicals industry