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17 June 202211 June 2022

The circular textile economy is rapidly approaching

Worn Again Technologies announces plans to build a new textile recycling demo plant in Winterthur Switzerland

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SCALITE, a marble like material made from fish scales

Fish waste like bones, heads, fins, and scales often end up in landfills. Erik de Laurens wants to change that, one gorgeous tile at a time

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A novel process to capture and convert CO2 from air

Eindhoven University of Technology researcher developed a technology for the extraction of carbon dioxide from ambient air via liquid or solid sorbents

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HEXPOL TPE Launch TPEs Containing Maritime Waste Recyclate

International TPE compounder has added the new Dryflex Circular MWR TPEs to their growing portfolio - which is made from recycled plastic fibre waste from the maritime industry

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15 June 202210 June 2022

The climatech startup converting CO2 into reusable carbon-based byproducts

“The time to act is now. We want to make a real impact on climate change,” says Raanan Shelach, co-founder and CEO of Carbonade

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14 June 20229 June 2022

Transparent and traceable: Neste teams up with Circularise to increase visibility along circular polymers and chemicals value chains

A digital twin will store informations on the used materials throughout the whole value chain, enabling all value chain parties to keep track of the material

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KBR Announces Investment in Mura Technology to Advance the Plastics Circular Economy

This alliance has since 2021 produced advances in process technology innovation such as closed loop power, water recycling, modularization and digital operating solutions

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CEMEX successfully turns CO2 into carbon nanomaterials

The next step is to scale the technology in a cement plant pilot within a year

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Capturing carbon with crops, trees and bioenergy

MSU researchers find an integrated approach to land management practices can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere far more than earlier estimates

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Topsoe technology to support Cresta’s renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production in Canada

The startup of the site for production of renewable fuels is expected in second half of 2022

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13 June 20228 June 2022

A series of EU Parliament votes on Fit for 55 sends wrong signals on industry decarbonisation & bioeconomy development

The Committee’s vote notably fails to provide a concrete solution for exports, while accelerating free allowances phasing-out and threatening the existing indirect carbon cost compensation scheme

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4 M€ grant to accelerate innovation on solar fuels and chemicals, and to support the transition toward a fossil-free EU economy

Under the umbrella of the SUNERGY pan-European initiative, the newly funded SUNER-C programme will strengthen the solar fuels and chemicals community within Europe

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Biobased succinic acid: Is the sustainable route becoming economically viable once more?

Industrial biotechnology with an innovative purification process and chemical catalysis presents an alternative way to convert renewable feedstocks into chemicals for use in a wide variety of everyday products

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From the packet into your food: what harmful substances are in food packaging?

The Basel researchers are focusing on food packaging made from plastics

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10 June 202210 June 2022

Urine, bacteria, and calcium: A green and simple recipe for biocement

The result is a solid block of material that's resistant to water seepage, and that is the same color as the original sand or soil while the whole production process takes place at room temperature

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Einführung von Covation Biomaterials: Bereitstellung innovativer, leistungsstarker, biobasierter Materialien in grossem Maßstab

Nach Schulterschluss mit dem Unternehmen Huafong wird DuPont Biomaterials zu Covation Biomaterials

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Fastest carbon dioxide catcher heralds new age for direct air capture

New carbon sorbent is 99% efficient, lightning fast, and easily recyclable

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9 June 20224 June 2022

Lenzing boosts circularity and traceability through collaboration with UTEXBEL

Together both firms to provide 80,000 prison personnel shirts for FPS Justice security guards using fabric with TENCEL™ branded lyocell fibers with REFIBRA™ technology

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Biosynthetics can be part of the fashion and textile industry’s journey towards a regenerative and circular future, says Textile Exchange

We need to transition away from the extraction of virgin fossil fuels but include existing preferred materials like recycled synthetics, and new areas of innovation, like biosynthetics made from natural, renewable sources such as agricultural waste, food crops, or plants

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Light Instead of Electricity: A New Kind of “Green Hydrogen”

At TU Wien, important steps have now been taken: on an atomic scale, scientists realized a new combination of molecular and solid-state catalysts that can do the job relying only on relatively inexpensive materials

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Veolia And Metsä Fibre Produce Bio-Methanol From Pulp Mill Waste

Veolia will build a crude methanol refinery connected with Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski bioproduct mill in a €50-million investment which is supported by from the Finnish ministry of economy and employment

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Launch of covation biomaterials: delivering innovative, high-performance, bio-based materials at scale

Covation biomaterials, a leading global company offering bio-based solutions, launched as an independent business, following the acquisition of dupont biomaterials by the huafon group

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8 June 20224 June 2022

Cars could get a ‘flashy’ upgrade

Flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles

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Why the EU’s Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act correctly lists bio-based plastics as “green investments”

The Climate Delegated Act supplementing the Regulation clearly supports “plastics derived wholly or partially from renewable feedstock” as “substantially contributing to climate change mitigation”

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7 June 20228 June 2022

Save the Date – Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 14–15 November, Cologne (Germany)

Ambitious recycling targets set by the EU, the commitments of the chemical industry and brands, as well as the demands of customers are putting enormous evolutionary pressure on the recycling sector

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Biden Administration Launches $3.5 Billion Program to Capture Carbon Pollution from the Air

DOE Announces Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Effort to Establish Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs for Large-Scale CO2 Removal

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Where compostable packaging fits in a circular economy

Compostable packaging is popularly seen as an answer to plastic pollution, but while it has a role to play in a circular economy, it is not a silver bullet. Any time a piece of packaging is used once – no matter how it is disposed of – it is single-use. Preventing waste in the first place should be top priority

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Sunsmart streets using recycled rubber last twice as long

Rubber from used tyres acts like sunscreen for roads and halves the rate of sun damage when mixed with bitumen, new research has found

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International consortium to advance decarbonisation of the aviation sector

CARE-O-SENE research project will develop advanced catalysts for sustainable aviation fuels

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3 June 202227 May 2022

Toward new degradable polymers

Researchers from CNRS and the Université Paris-Saclay developed new polymers that degrade in water in the record time of one week

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Aqualung Carbon Capture successfully completes $10m equity round with strategic investors

Aqualung Carbon Capture is pleased to announce the completion of a new equity investment from key strategic partners including Delek US, Global Ship Lease, Golar LNG, MKS Pamp and Standard Lithium

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LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, Discovers Method to Produce Sustainable PET Bottles from Captured Carbon

Proof of concept for direct production of monoethylene glycol (MEG), a key building block in sustainable PET production, completed at lab scale

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2 June 202225 May 2022

Teijin Frontier Develops New Chemical Recycling Technology for Polyester Fibers

The company will launch a pilot facility at its Matsuyama Plant this month and continue developing recycling technologies to improve the quality of recycled polyester raw materials, reduce environmental load

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Preiswertes, batterie-ähnliches Gerät absorbiert beim Aufladen CO2

Bei der Entladung lässt sich das CO2 kontrolliert auffangen, um es wiederzuverwenden oder zu entsorgen

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The future of textile recycling

Recycling of fibers is on the right track, but there are challenges that have to be overcome in order to make it common commercial reality have to be sorted

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1 June 202225 May 2022

Bioenergy: important step towards protecting forests & food security taken by the EU Environment Committee

There is a real danger that the positive work of the ENVI committee could be reversed, and BirdLife Europe will continue to bring awareness of the issues with bioenergy all along the process

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Wood conservation

The companies Foreco and Accsys are using different technologies of wood conservation and strengthening without harmful environmental effects

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31 May 202223 May 2022

Topsoe to build world’s largest electrolyzer production facility to accelerate Power-to-X capacity

The plant will be built in Herning, Denmark. Construction work will start in second half of 2022 with expected start of operations in 2024.

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MOF Technologies Brings Carbon Capture Costs Down By 80%

New game-changing system called Nuada makes every other carbon capture project worth a shot for investors

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30 May 202223 May 2022

Pertamina – Air Liquide Agree to Collaborate in Developing CCU Technology at the Balikpapan Refinery

Cooperation agreement was realized through a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) on CO2 Syngas and Flue Gas capture technology application from Hydrogen production

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Green Deal: New proposals to make sustainable products the norm and boost Europe’s resource independence

The new EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles is going to ensure that by 2030 textile products placed on the EU market are long-lived and recyclable, as much as possible made of recycled fibres, free of hazardous substances and produced in respect of social rights and the environment

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Sparking Sustainable new Chemical Catalysts

Pitt chemical engineers show how tungsten oxide can be used as a catalyst in sustainable chemical conversions

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27 May 202224 May 2022

This start-up makes vodka out of CO2 emissions, and it’s backed by Toyota and JetBlue

The three-year-old start-up’s vodka is a luxury brand, costing about $65 bottle

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25 May 202219 May 2022

Plastic Recycling: TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project

The partners will use the patented pyrolysis technology that was developed in partnership with Lummus Technology to process and convert more than 310,000 tons per year of mixed plastic waste

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High-tech bridge built with flax

The University of Stuttgart is contributing to innovations for climate protection as part of the EU project "Smart Circular Bridge"

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24 May 202219 May 2022

Avantium awarded €3 million EU grant to demonstrate the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to consumer products

Under the new WaterProof programme, Avantium will convert CO2, from wastewater purification and waste incineration into formic acid using its proprietary catalytic electrochemistry platform

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Axens and Toray Films Europe to boost Plastic Circular Economy with a new PET Chemical Recycling Plant in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (France)

Joined efforts of both parties in their domain of expertise will allow the emergence of competencies for chemical recycling circularity

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Borealis and Reclay Group form new joint entity, Recelerate, to make plastic circularity a reality

The new organisation’s mission is to redesign the critical steps of the plastics sorting and recycling system for LWP

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Advanced recycling: Opportunities for growth

As interest in the circular economy grows, emerging recycling technologies that are complementary with mechanical recycling are accelerating

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23 May 20228 January 2023

Converting CO₂ through electrochemistry – The WaterProof Project

Starting soon, the new research project WaterProof aims at closing the waste(water) carbon loop by creating a novel biorefinery concept converting CO2 emissions from urban waste treatment facilities into valuable green consumer-products. The objective is a technology resulting in a GHG reduction based on CO2 utilization, replacement of fossil feedstock and industrial electrification