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
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
Ulla Hüppe, Director Sustainability Adhesive Technologies at Henkel (Germany), on the current development of the renewable carbon economyEuropean 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
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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