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21 April 202214 April 2022

World’s first ‘Smart Circular Bridge’ in a city

The Eindhoven University of Technology-led EU project ‘Smart Circular Bridge’ recognizes the potentials of flax by building three city bridges made from a biocomposite material consisting of flax and a special bio-resin

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Light, oxygen turn waste plastics into useful benzoic acid

Cornell researcher has discovered a new path for polystyrene waste that includes being upcycled into benzoic acid, through a mild process that uses light, an oxygen-rich environment and an abundant iron-based catalyst

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20 April 202213 April 2022

Giant grass miscanthus: Bioethanol source with negative CO2 balance

European collaborative project led by the University of Hohenheim shows: Combining bioethanol production with carbon storage can effectively reduce CO2

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New Latitude 5000 Series Are Dell’s Most Sustainable Laptops Yet*

New packaging is made from 100% recycled or renewable materials and is 100% recyclable

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Pure White CELLIANT from Hologenix receives second prestigious recognition

The Company’s Newest Innovation Shortlisted in Drapers Sustainable Fashion 2022 Awards

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Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide

Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master

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19 April 202212 April 2022

Plastics Europe supports new report’s call for faster systemic change towards circularity and net zero carbon emissions

Report calls for a new and enabling policy framework to incentivise net zero investment and innovation

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Treasury chemical recycling ruling condemned in open letter

MPs and Peers from four major parties have called for the Treasury to reconsider its decision to classify the products of chemical processes as ‘recycled content’ in the Plastic Packaging Tax

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New method purifies hydrogen from heavy carbon monoxide mixtures

Penn State associate professor of chemical engineering, proposes using high-temperature proton-selective polymer electrolyte membranes, or PEMs, to separate hydrogen from other gases in an ACS Energy Letters paper

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14 April 202211 April 2022

Continental Launches First Tires with Polyester Made from Recycled PET Bottles

A set of standard passenger car tires uses the material from around 40 recycled PET bottles

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Turning plastic trash into clean hydrogen fuel

NTU scientists can now convert plastic litter into two main products, hydrogen and a form of solid carbon known as carbon nanotubes

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Braskem and Sojitz Corporation join hands to bring renewable MEG technology to the market

The companies have created a joint venture, which will become the global leader in the bioMEG market. Once technology development is concluded, the project foresee the construction of three industrial plants in the first stage

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13 April 202230 August 2023

Six Innovations are Nominated for the “Renewable Material of the Year 2022” Award

Participants at the “Renewable Materials Conference” will vote for the winners

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Eastman enters exclusive negotiation with site in Normandy for molecular recycling facility in France

Chemical company selected this location of three potential options

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Mattel Expands its Sustainable Product Offering with New MEGA BLOKS CarbonNeutral Green Town Line and Matchbox Tesla Roadster Made from 99% Recycled Materials

Just in time for Earth Month, also four new MEGA BLOKS Green Town building sets support a greener way to play for little builders

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Bridgestone Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Advance Guayule Natural Rubber Research

The grant will accelerate the company’s efforts to optimize guayule shrubs for increased rubber content, producing higher-yielding crops

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12 April 20226 April 2022

Neuer IPCC-Bericht: “Die sichere Existenz der Menschheit steht auf dem Spiel”

Der letzte IPCC-Bericht war vor einem Monat unter den schockierenden Nachrichten des Krieges in der Ukraine sowie steigenden Energiepreisen untergegangen. Das darf nicht noch einmal passieren

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Mattel Becomes First Toy Company to Incorporate SABIC’s Certified Renewable Polymers Globally

The partnership directly supports Mattel’s goal to achieve 100% recycled, recyclable or bio-based plastic materials in its products and packaging by 2030, and is an important step forward in their transition towards a circular economy

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Westlake Epoxy Receives ISCC+ Certification at Its Pernis, Netherlands Site

This is a significant step in Westlake Epoxy’s strategy to integrate renewable carbon materials into its raw material supply chain

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Processing renewable raw materials instead of crude oil in refineries

In the project BioMates, researchers made another important step for achieving the project’s goal

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11 April 20225 April 2022

New Polymer Membrane Tech Improves Efficiency of CO2 Capture

New membrane filters work by allowing CO2 to pass through the membrane more quickly than any other constituents in the mixed gas

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Start-up C1: with quantum chemistry and prominent investors to green methanol

Berlin-based start-up aims to make the chemical industry more sustainable and less dependent on fossil imports - Jürgen Hambrecht, Wolfgang Reitzle and Jim Hagemann Snabe among investors

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PEF as a barrier layer: does it influence the bottle blowing process?

Produced by Avantium Renewable Polymers, PEF is a polyester made from renewable resources and is very suitable as a barrier layer in PET-based multilayer bottles

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8 April 20224 April 2022

Ecoplanta signs grant agreement with the European Commission under the Innovation Fund

The Ecoplanta project, one of seven at European level and the only Spanish candidacy selected in this call, aims to transform non-recyclable Municipal waste materials rejected by sorting centers into green chemicals and fuels

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ORLEN Unipetrol continues its sustainability strategy by producing certified renewable polypropylene from waste vegetable oil

With this method it is also possible to produce polyethylene, ethylene, and benzene

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Metsä Fibre and Veolia conclude long-term partnership for biomethanol production at the Äänekoski bioproduct mill

Biomethanol production adds value to methanol, and the resulting product can be used as traffic fuel, for example

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Why seaweed is a natural fit for replacing certain plastics

Five out of eight finalists for a million-dollar sustainability prize floated algae as an alternative for plastic film

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BASF Venture Capital invests in Oceanworks, a sustainable plastic sourcing platform

Startup offers platform for ocean, ocean-bound, and post-consumer-recycled (PCR) plastic sourcing. Recycled plastic traced back to origin via digital blockchain based technology

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7 April 20226 April 2022

Native Shoes Launches The Robbie with Braskem’s I’m green™ Bio-Based EVA Polymer

The Robbie breaks new ground with environmentally minded footwear created from Braskem's sustainably sourced sugarcane biopolymer

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6 April 202231 March 2022

Versalis and Novamont strengthen green chemistry partnership

Joint aim is to enhance the company’s technology and production assets in order to fully develop its products, also by focusing on growth in the previously referenced markets

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BIO-LUTIONS partners with Solenis to produce sustainable disposable alternatives to singleuse plastic

BIO-LUTIONS, a German CleanTech Startup pioneering the world of natural fiber manufacturing, is working with Solenis, a leading global producer of specialty chemicals to produce sustainable disposable alternatives to single-use plastic

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Clariant joins the Renewable Carbon Initiative

Clariant has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) to promote the transition from fossil to renewable carbon and the use of renewable raw materials in the chemical industry

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5 April 202230 March 2022

New pretreatment and upgrading capabilities: Neste works on next step towards commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic in Porvoo, Finland

Processing capabilities for liquefied waste plastic are planned by implementing proprietary technologies to pretreat and upgrade liquefied waste plastic and integrating the technologies into the refinery operations

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ELIX Polymers, AnQore and OCI N.V. support European consumer goods company to produce more sustainable products

Major European consumer goods manufacturer will use ELIX E-LOOP ABS, a step that will substantially reduce the carbon footprint of its products and contribute to a more sustainable value chain

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Covestro pioneers the supply of renewable¹ TDI

For more sustainable mattresses, upholstered furniture, shoes and automotive seats, showing significant reduction of CO2 emissions from cradle-to-gate2 and rapidly implementable solution with consistently high quality

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4 April 202229 March 2022

BioWRAP – Bioplastics with regenerative agricultural properties

New collaboration project created an all-in-one bioplastic system that can better manage weeds, add nutrients to soils, improve soil and plant health, and save water

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The race to upcycle CO2 into fuels, concrete and more

Companies are scrambling to turn the greenhouse gas into useful products — but will that slow climate change?

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Helping Agriculture to Reach its Circular Bioeconomy Goals

The potential use of lignin biopolymers for the development of nanoparticles for agricultural applications and environmental decontamination

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Expert: EU needs a 90% collection target for beverage cartons to boost recycling

The European Commission should introduce a 90% collection target for all beverage cartons by 2030 to ensure they are properly collected and sorted and boost recycling in the sector, says Dragos Popa

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BLUEVIEW Enters The Sustainable Footwear Market With The World’s First Biodegradable* Shoe

Committed to protecting the planet, BLUEVIEW is accelerating the global transition to bio-based sneakers

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1 April 20221 April 2022

CHAMPION Webinars: Progress in Materials Designed for a Circular Economy

6th, April, 2022, Time: 14-15h - Location: online & free!

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Is the bioeconomy Europe’s biggest hidden opportunity?

From edible insects to 3D jackets on demand - Europe’s bioeconomy comes with some pretty big promises - and just a decade later its potential is seemingly on the cusp of being realised

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Next-Gen ‘Bio-Based’ Synthetics Are Here, But When Will They Replace Polluting Polyester?

Circularity isn't a viable route to ‘sustainable synthetics’ and recycled PET (rPET) is not the answer. Because the processing of polyester devours most of the energy - not the raw material phase that recycling replaces

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Five game-changing innovations share $525,000 prize to end microplastic pollution

Five trailblazing innovations have won a total of $525,000 as a part of Conservation X Labs’ Microfiber Innovation Challenge for their ability to reduce or prevent microfiber pollution.

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31 March 202231 March 2022

Converting wastewater into bio-based polymer, essential oils, phenolic extracts and clean water: The AFTERLIFE project presents its results.

AFTERLIFE demonstrates a new way of wastewater treatment that simultaneously recovers compounds of interest while converting remaining organic matter into a high-volume added value bio-based polymer.

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Start of commercial production in Pomacle

The Company’s first commercial unit has begun production on schedule and the first batches of biosourced isobutene have been manufactured at this unit in March 2022

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Carbon-Capture Startup Using Dirt Cheap Material Raises $53 Million

Heirloom uses cheap and widely available limestone to suck carbon from the air. The latest funds will help build its first pilot-scale facility

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SHV Energy and LanzaTech announce partnership to pioneer renewable propane

SHV Energy and LanzaTech announced a new strategic partnership to employ LanzaTech’s Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) technology to bring renewable propane and other sustainable fuels to the market via existing and novel pathways

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30 March 202225 March 2022

Sustainable Aviation Fuels III – Industrial Landscape

The demand is already shifting and more people (mainly younger generations) and businesses, recognize and value sustainable and renewable alternatives over fossil-based options

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Dow to simplify plastic waste-to-feedstock process through investment with start-up Plastogaz

Plastogaz’s proprietary catalytic hydrocracking technology solution is unique in that it is more efficient, and less energy intensive than some other current forms of advanced recycling