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27 April 202221 April 2022

How biomass can enable a hydrogen economy

Building a collaborative net zero future through negative emissions and zero-carbon fuel

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

The Commission is presenting today a new strategy to make textiles more durable, repairable, reusable and recyclable, to tackle fast fashion, textile waste and the destruction of unsold textiles, and ensure the producers full respect of social rights

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China: Recycling of 25% of all textile waste by 2025

Country wants to produce 2 million tons of recycled fiber by 2025 as part of its push to peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2060

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Method efficiently breaks down plastic bottles into component parts

Researchers first to demonstrate use of metal-organic frameworks to degrade plastics

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26 April 202221 April 2022

OGE and TES join forces to develop a 1,000 km CO₂ transmission system

OGE and Tree Energy Solutions (TES) have entered into a strategic partnership for a CO2 circular economy

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AFYREN announces the industrial commissioning of its AFYREN NEOXY plant and publishes its 2021 Full-Year Results

Finalization of the construction of the AFYREN NEOXY plant at cost and on time despite the health crisis context

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NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem Advance Commercialization of Made-in-Alberta Chemical Recycling Technology

The team has been working to achieve lower greenhouse gas emissions while significantly accelerating the upgrading process for waste materials

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Bridgestone Partners with LanzaTech to Pursue End-of-Life Tire Recycling Technologies

Bridgestone is partnering with Carbon Capture and Transformation company LanzaTech to develop a scaled solution for recycling end-of-life tires. The exclusive partnership will leverage LanzaTech’s technology to create a pathway toward tire material circularity and the decarbonization of new tire production

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Enerkem closes $255 million financing round to drive its growth and deployment of its leading gasification technology

Strong partnership support through new investments by Repsol and Monarch and additional investments from Avenue and other existing shareholders

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25 April 202221 April 2022

European plastics system needs significant change within five years to meet long-term circularity and net zero emissions goals, warns major new report

New study finds that a fully circular, net zero carbon emissions plastics system in Europe is possible, but achieving it will require radical innovation, ambitious policies, and significant capital investment

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Technip Energies and Alterra Energy to Jointly Develop Sustainable Plastics Projects

Combination of advanced recycling and purification technologies enable more efficient processing and reuse of hard-to-recycle plastic

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Japan: TotalEnergies and ENEOS to Study Sustainable Aviation Fuel production at ENEOS Negishi Refinery

The proposed unit, which capacity would be 300,000 tons per year of SAF, would process waste or residue, mainly used cooking oil and animal fat

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Durethan® Scopeblue – our most sustainable premium polyamide 6

With Durethan® BLUE BKV60H2.0EF, LANXESS offers the first polyamide made from 92% sustainable and ISCC Plus certified raw materials. This is a top value among glass fiber-reinforced plastics

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£5m fund launched to develop carbon dioxide utilisation technology

A new fund to help develop the emerging CO2 utilisation technology has been launched

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Encina Announces $1.1 billion investment in new advanced manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania

Proposed facility will convert post-consumer plastic materials into feedstock for new products

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22 April 202219 April 2022

Brightmark Announces Advanced Plastics Renewal Facility in Australia

With the establishment of this new facility, Brightmark will be the first new circular economy business in the Parkes Special Activation Precinct, as well as the first-of-its-kind advanced recycling plant

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International team nets €3.4M to advance ship-based carbon capture for maritime sector

EverLoNG to conduct technology trials on board two LNG-fuelled ships along with supporting studies

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Consumer Goods Companies Announce Position on Chemical Recycling Technologies and Publish Life Cycle Assessment

For the first time, consumer good companies are joining forces through The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) to set the agenda for the development of new plastic recycling technologies

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OMV supplies Austrian Airlines with sustainable aviation fuel under the partnership agreement

Cooperation between Austrian Airlines and OMV, both committed to sustainable goals, further strengthens Austria as an innovation hub

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21 April 202221 April 2022

Søren Kristiansen, Senior Technology Director Materials at LEGO (DK), on the current and future framework for a renewable carbon economy

Interview with Michael Carus, CEO of the nova-Institute

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An Industry Pioneer: Beiersdorf Launches the World’s First Cosmetics Product with Recycled CO2

The formula of the new NIVEA MEN Climate Care Moisturizer has a soothing effect on the skin and adds a refreshing moisture boost

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Branchenvorreiter: Beiersdorf bringt weltweit erstes Kosmetikprodukt mit recyceltem CO2 auf den Markt

Die Formel der neuen NIVEA MEN „Feuchtigkeitspflege Climate Care“ mit kosmetischem Ethanol wirkt beruhigend auf die Haut und fungiert zusätzlich als erfrischender Feuchtigkeitsspender

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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