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9 January 202329 December 2022

Plasma technology makes recycling of CO₂ local and 100% circular

The BluePlasma consortium receives approval from VLAIO to set up an R&D pilot project

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5 January 20232 January 2023

European Green Deal: Putting an end to wasteful packaging, boosting reuse and recycling

New proposals of the European Commission are key building blocks of the European Green Deal's Circular Economy Action Plan and its objective to make sustainable products the norm

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4 January 202311 January 2023

Wood and CuanTec to accelerate circular economy solutions in the UK

Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, will work with CuanTec Ltd., a Scottish circular economy business, to develop cutting edge separation facilities that will process shellfish waste to extract chitin, a naturally occurring, 100% compostable biopolymer with a wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries

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Fashion for Good launches the home-compostable polybag project

Fashion for Good launches the Home-Compostable Polybag Project, a pilot to test alternatives to conventional single-use polybags

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Limburg companies replace cement with CO₂ as building block binder

The zero-waste company Orbix from Genk and the building materials producer Masterbloc from Maasmechelen have succeeded in developing circular building blocks that use carbon dioxide instead of cement as a binder

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Futerro aims to set-up a new fully integrated PLA biorefinery in Normandy, France

Futerro plans to set up Europe's first vertically integrated biorefinery in Normandy to produce PLA and recycle it

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3 January 202322 December 2022

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioplastics: A Crucial Pillar for Circular Bioeconomy

As society moves towards sustainable development and a circular economy, one aspect that needs urgent attention is the use of plastic and plastic-based products

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2 January 202321 December 2022

Wavin Launches Bio-Based Water Solutions Portfolio

The first biobased product portfolio will be available in the Netherlands from December 12 (2022) onward

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23 December 202220 December 2022

Anellotech to Advance Development of Tex-Tcat, an Efficient Recycling Technology for Mixed Waste Textiles

Anellotech plans to begin advanced lab testing and scale-up for Tex-TCat, an innovative recycling solution to the growing problem of textile waste

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The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2022 is Tom van Aken, CEO Avantium

The most innovative bioeconomy CEO 2022 is Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium, the Dutch company that is a pioneer in the emerging industry of renewable and sustainable chemistry

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22 December 202220 December 2022

Analysis by Fraunhofer-Institute Confirms Enormous CO₂ Reductions for Pyrum’s Pyrolysis Process Compared to Conventional Recycling Processes for End-of-Life Tyres

This scientifically proves that Pyrum not only closes the material cycle, but also saves more CO2 than all currently used, common recycling processes for end-of-life tyres

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Converting the textile industry to bio-based raw materials

How can we scale up sustainable (bio-based) textiles recycling?

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Alpla and PTT Global Chemical Realise Thailand’s Largest Plastics Recycling Plant Equipped with State-of-the-Art Technology

Following 18 months of construction and installation, the ALPLA Group and PTT Global Chemical are opening the state-of-the-art ENVICCO food-grade recycling plant for bottle-to-bottle applications in Thailand

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21 December 202219 December 2022

Using CO₂ emissions from industry to make climate-friendly plastics

VTT launches project to manufacture polymers using captured CO2 from forest industry and incinerated waste

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TOMRA Recycling and PolyPerception Announce New Collaboration

TOMRA today announced a new collaboration with PolyPerception to offer AI-powered material analysis technology to waste sorting and recycling facilities

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20 December 202215 December 2022

RecyOuest successfully starts up ANDRITZ recycling line for agricultural plastic waste nets

RecyOuest, France, has successfully started up the world's first recycling line for agricultural plastic waste nets at its mill in Argentan

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Toray to Domestically Sell Chemical Recycled Fiber Products Derived from Fishing Nets

oray Industries, Inc., announced today that it will begin selling nylon 6 chemically recycled fiber (N6CR) yarns, textiles, and other products in Japan from March 2023

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Balena Steps Out with 100% Biodegradable Footwear

With the debut of its cinnamon-scented slides – made entirely out of Balena's game-changing, fully compostable and biodegradable material – the company is setting new standards for durable, flexible and sustainable alternatives to plastics in fashion

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19 December 202214 December 2022

Lenzing and Renewcell sign large-scale supply agreement further closing the loop in fashion

Partnership with Swedish textile-to-textile recycling company will further increase production of TENCEL™ and LENZING™ ECOVERO™ branded specialty fibers using recycled content. Supply of 100 per cent recycled textile Circulose® dissolving pulp

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16 December 202213 December 2022

From climate problem to climate opportunity

Circular bioplastics offer solution for climate crisis and growing resource consumption

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LG Chem Launches Asia’s First Plant Material-based Eco-friendly ABS

LG Chem announced that it will begin pioneering the eco-friendly market in earnest by launching the eco-friendly highly functional plastic (Bio-Circular balanced ABS) product that applies plant-based bio ingredients on the 1st

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Successful EUBP Conference

Bioplastics industry set to engage with political stakeholders on upcoming legislation

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U-M team recycles previously unrecyclable plastic

Researchers discovered a way to chemically recycle PVC into usable material

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15 December 202212 December 2022

New EU Packaging Regulation & Framework on Bioplastics

On November 30 the European Commission published the long awaited Policy Framework for Biobased, Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation - part of the EU Circular Economy Package II

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Communication on a policy framework for biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

Questions and Answers that seek to deepen knowledge of these substances and make clear the areas where plastics can actually assist the environment

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14 December 20229 January 2023

The Success Story of Cellulose Fibres Continues – First Peaks Into the Program of the Upcoming Cellulose Fibres Conference 2023 Available

The Presentations Will Introduce the Latest Development in the Sustainable Circular Industry. 8-9 March, 2023 in Cologne, Germany and Online

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‘The right time for chemical recycling is now’

Chemical Recycling Summit

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Wood-based Bioeconomy. Sustainable, Circular, Climate-resilient

The wood-based bioeconomy can make an important contribution to sustainable management of the economy

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13 December 20227 December 2022

Proposed new packaging rules acknowledge environmental and climate benefits of compostable plastic packaging

Commission misses opportunity to fully embrace necessary shift to biobased feedstock

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ExxonMobil, PT Indomobil Prima Energi, And Plastic Energy Collaborate To Accelerate Plastic Recycling In Indonesia

The advanced recycling capacity being assessed as a part of the collaboration is expected to be 100,000 metric tons per year, with the first phase starting up in 2025

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Prince William unveils Lanzatech as a Finalist for the Second Annual Earthshot Prize Awards

Following a rigorous, 10-month selection process, a panel of advisors with expertise in science, conservation, innovation, investment, economics, politics and activism selected LanzaTech from more than 1,000 nominations

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How chemists are tackling the plastics problem

New research could help turn a mix of plastic waste into new products

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EU packaging law proposal branded ‘unworkable’ by food industry

A new EU packaging law proposal has sparked major concerns among the EU food industry, who warn it is unworkable for food business operators – but NGOs slammed heavy industry lobbying for watering down the proposal

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12 December 20227 December 2022

Honeywell And Environ Intend To Advance Plastics Circularity In Egypt Through Memorandum Of Understanding

oneywell has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Egypt’s Environ Adapt for Recycling Industries with the aim of advancing plastics recycling in the country

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9 December 20226 December 2022

An EU Success Story: SSUCHY

Successful development of bio-based composites with advanced functionalities for applications in transportation and high value market niches (acoustic and electronics sectors)

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Closed production cycle for bicycle tyres

Pyrum supplies recycled carbon black (rCB) to Schwalbe for the production of new bicycle tyres

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8 December 20227 December 2022

Circular EconomyPLUS: Expert group provides recommendations for action for a German Circular Economy Strategy

A contribution to the discussion on a circular economy for plastics moderated by PlasticsEurope Deutschland e.V.

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New white paper: Stay in the cycle

TotalEnergies Corbion launches white paper about the recyclability of PLA bioplastic

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7 December 20222 December 2022

Covestro turns to biotechnology for sustainable plastics

Use of microorganisms and enzymes in production

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Synova, SABIC and Technip Energies join forces to accelerate plastic circularity

The combined technology efficiently converts plastic waste into high value chemicals, enabling an efficient plastic circularity route and significant reduction of greenhouse gas emission

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Converting waste paper into battery parts for smartphones and electric vehicles

Through a process called carbonisation which converts paper into pure carbon, the NTU researchers turned the paper’s fibres into electrodes, which can be made into rechargeable batteries

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6 December 20221 December 2022

SigmaRoc to install carbon capture facility

SigmaRoc and Aqualung will construct Europe’s first industrial scale facility of its type at Nordkalk in Q1 2023

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Single-use cardboard boxes or reusable plastic crates — which type of packaging is more sustainable?

The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT carried out the "Study on plastic-based reusable systems in a circular economy" on behalf of the Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg

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Products Made With Captured Greenhouse Gas Are Reaching Commercial Scale

Startups are taking aim at chemicals, one of the largest industrial sources of global emissions

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5 December 202230 November 2022

Circularise secures €11M in funding from Brightlands Venture Partners, Asahi Kasei, Neste, 4impact and others

Over the last six years, the company grew to 40 people, expanded to international markets such as Japan and partnered with multinational companies

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CEMEX and RTI awarded $3.7 million cooperative agreement to advance carbon capture technology in cement manufacturing

Team to conduct FEED study of post-combustion carbon capture system at Texas cement plant

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The new standard work on recycling of plastics

Dr. Norbert Niessner, Global Innovation Director at INEOS Styrolution, published the new ‘Recycling of Plastics’ book that leaves no question on the topic unanswered

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Arkema increases its bio-based offer with a new range of mass balance acrylic materials

Arkema announces a major step forward in its innovative sustainable offer with the certification of a range of bio-attributed acrylic monomers using the mass balance* approach

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2 December 202230 November 2022

Electrochaea Joins New European Cleantech Scale-Up Coalition, Supported by Breakthrough Energy and Kadri Simson

The coalition members are companies scaling and industrialising technologies whose products and services range from decarbonising industry and energy with renewable hydrogen to producing scalable low-carbon cement; from electrifying transport to recycling materials and batteries

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Paper versus plastic: Ceresana examines the European flexible packaging market

For the second time Ceresana has studied the European market for flexible packaging made of plastics, paper and aluminum