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13 May 20246 May 2024

LYB to build integrated plastic waste recycling hub in Knapsack

The project will be developed in phases; the initial phase will see the construction of an advanced sorting facility that will process mixed plastic waste to produce feedstock for mechanical and advanced recycling

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10 May 20246 May 2024

OMV and Borealis sign long-term supply agreements with TOMRA for recycling feedstock produced from mixed waste

OMV will process feedstock supplied from TOMRA Feedstock plants in its ReOil® plants in Austria, while Borealis will process feedstock produced by TOMRA at its mechanical recycling operations in Europe

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7 May 20243 May 2024

Covestro collaborates with automotive partners on car-to-car plastic recycling

New joint program aiming for efficient, sustainable automotive plastic recycling

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6 May 202429 April 2024

ALDI moves to 100% recycled plastic on soft drink and water bottles in UK supermarket FIRST

Switching to 100% recycled content is expected to save around 10,000 tonnes of virgin plastic annually, and forms part of the supermarket’s target to include 50% recycled content into its plastic packaging

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3 May 202430 April 2024

New EU rules to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging

The regulation aims to tackle constantly growing waste, harmonise internal market rules and boost the circular economy

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2 May 202426 April 2024

How Earth Day Went Global, and How We Can Use it To Save Our Earth

Earth Day 2024 highlights need for plastic solutions

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30 April 202418 October 2024

Rethinking plastics – the new alter­native for current plastic materials is born from CO2

Tony Rehn, Programme Director of Fortum's innov­ative Carbon2x programme discusses the possi­bil­ities and challenges of future plastic production

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Technip Energies and Anellotech to Jointly Develop Sustainable Plastics Recycling

The companies will bring their combined process technology expertise and know-how to complete comprehensive performance trials at Anellotech’s demonstration plant in Silsbee, Texas

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29 April 202424 April 2024

Should plastics be recycled?

Plastics are a well-established problem with respect to sustainability

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25 April 202426 April 2024

Special discount for the Renewable Materials Conference until 6 May

11-13 June 2024 in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany) and online

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23 April 202418 April 2024

Composites-Recycling-Study now also available in English

For the first time, the study provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the quantities of waste produced and the solutions for high-quality recycling that are currently available and can be implemented

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22 April 202418 April 2024

Neste and Lotte Chemical team up on renewable chemicals and plastics

This will enable products and applications with a lower carbon footprint

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17 April 202415 April 2024

EuRIC, FEAD and NGOs back “polymer-only” allocation method for plastic from chemical recycling

Several organisations sent a joint letter to policy officers of the European Commission’s DG Environment last week urging them to consider amending the proposal’s allocation rules

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16 April 202414 April 2024

How to improve the use of recycled materials in Germany

In TAB Working Report No. 207 three different product and waste areas were analysed: plastic packaging, electrical and electronic waste and mineral construction and demolition waste, in order to differentiate the requirements for an improved use of recycled materials

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9 April 20244 April 2024

Eastman molecular recycling facility achieves on-spec initial production and is generating revenue 

The company expects to ramp up production of the new facility over the coming months and enable growth across a wide range of markets

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28 March 202422 March 2024

UvA chemists develop new type of bio-based plastic: “Strong, recyclable and biodegradable”

UvA chemists have now developed a strong, heat-resistant plastic that breaks down in the nature after six months

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27 March 202422 March 2024

Project STOP marks further major milestones in 2023 and makes significant progress in the Project STOP Banyuwangi Hijau expansion program

As a co-founder of Project STOP, Borealis commits the full funding of the next phase of Project STOP Banyuwangi Hijau

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26 March 202421 March 2024

Circular Economy Report shows: there are progressions in Recycling, but also hurdles

Especially too much plasticwaste goes to incineration - with an upward trend

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22 March 202419 March 2024

Sustainable plastics from agricultural waste

EPFL scientists have developed a sustainable method to make high-performance plastics from agricultural leftovers, turning them into valuable materials

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15 March 202413 March 2024

Revamped plastics recycling chain

The circular economy: Fraunhofer Waste4Future flagship project

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6 March 20241 March 2024

Source One Plastics Starts Operations at Plastic Waste Sorting and Recycling Facility

New unit processes difficult to recycle post-consumer plastic waste such as mixed plastic packaging and flexible polyolefins materials that would otherwise be sent mostly to incineration

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27 February 202417 December 2024

Free webinar: All About RC(I)

Discussing the Renewable Carbon Initiative and Strategy, 29 February 2024 – 14:00 to 15:00 (CET)

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CARBIOS and De Smet Engineers & Contractors enter engineering partnership for construction of world’s first PET biorecycling plant

Carbios first commercial facility will play a key role in the fight against plastic pollution by offering an industrial-scale solution for the enzymatic depolymerization of PET waste to accelerate a circular economy

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26 February 202421 February 2024

Legal assessment on the EU packaging regulation PPWR: Special rules for plastic packaging not compatible with EU law

According to a new report by the international law firm Dentons the European Commission laws discriminate with a high probability against plastic packaging

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23 February 202422 February 2024

Advanced Recycling on the Rise – Rapid Growth in Capacities at Global and European level

The update and expansion of the nova-Institute's report "Mapping of advanced plastic waste recycling technologies and their global capacities" provides a detailed insight into technological advances, identifies key players in the field and describes the current state of advanced recycling in Europe and worldwide

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22 February 202416 February 2024

Rumpke and Eastman join forces to expand recycling of PET waste

Rumpke will begin collecting and sorting hard-to-recycle and colored PET packaging waste, and will provide 100 percent of this waste stream as feedstock to Eastman’s molecular recycling process

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16 February 202416 February 2024

The Unbearable Complexity of Defining Recycling 

What is recycling and how can it be measured? This question may sound quite trivial at first but on a closer look turns out to be rather complex – and vital

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Researchers find bioplastic drinking straws intact after over a year buried underground

The 5 Gyres research institute says bioplastics are "not a silver bullet solution" for plastic pollution, following a study that raises concerns about so-called biodegradable products

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12 February 20243 February 2024

Products made from oxo-degradable plastic: the General Court endorses the prohibition on the placing on the market

The European legislature did not make a manifest error when it adopted a prohibition in line with the objective of protecting the environment and human health

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2 February 202429 January 2024

Roquette Isosorbide Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification

International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS for POLYSORB® isosorbide and the following product grades: POLYSORB® PSA, POLYSORB® LP, POLYSORB® PA

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1 February 202424 January 2024

Pryme N.V. produces first oil

Pryme produced the first lots of pyrolysis oil by chemical recycling of post-consumer and post-industrial waste

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29 January 202419 January 2024

Plymouth Marine Laboratory: What happens to biodegradable plastics if they enter the sea?

Our new study investigates what happens when biodegradable plastics enter the ocean, and whether these increasingly popular alternatives to conventional plastics are safer for marine ecosystems, or whether they come with their own risks

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25 January 202417 January 2024

‘Let recycling play a fuller part’

A profound shift in how Europe approaches recycling would support the EU’s broader industrial and environmental agenda, according to the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC)

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23 January 202415 January 2024

The U.S. Plastics Industry in 2023 in Seven Charts

The year witnessed divergent trajectories: while certain segments, such as resin manufacturing, grappled with equilibrium adjustments, others, like the mold for plastics trade, mirrored global economic oscillations

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22 January 202415 January 2024

Towards zero plastic waste in 2050

Wageningen University highlighted global plastics production, but our goal is to arrive at a circular economy, which means to recycling all plastic waste

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18 January 202411 January 2024

SÜDPACK expands its involvement in CARBOLIQ

Dirk Hardow, who is responsible for matters such as the development and implementation of closed-loop models, will lead the company as its managing director in the future

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Bio-based plasticizers from Central Germany

Using rapeseed oil as a starting product in the "Biocerine" project, more sustainable solutions for tires and packaging should become possible

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Compostable fishing nets: An end to Ghost Nets in the oceans?

South African initiative Catchgreen is developing nets and other gear from compostable Biodolomer, a net lost at sea would degrade into biomass within a few years

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17 January 202410 January 2024

WSS Research Centre for a circular economy in the chemical industry

In the new WSS Research Centre RWTH-scientists will be developing catalysis-driven production processes that enable multidimensional circularity in the chemical industry

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15 January 20249 January 2024

Neste doubled the amount of waste plastic processed during 2023

The output of the runs is high-quality, ISCC PLUS certified material for new plastics

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LyondellBasell Introduces New Plastics Made from Recycled Marine Maritime Gear

Lyondell Basell presents a new recyclate for vehicles. The polypropylene copolymer is made from used fishing nets

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11 January 20244 January 2024

Toray Carbon Fiber Recycled from Boeing 787 Wing Production Process Applied in Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12

Boeing 787 components using Toray’s advanced carbon fiber, which is based on pyrolysis recycling process, are used as reinforcement filler for thermoplastic pellets

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10 January 20243 January 2024

All systems go as APK prepares for the construction of their new large-scale Newcycling® plant

Strong investors, successful certifications, agreement for product supply

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9 January 20242 January 2024

Packaging and packaging waste: Council adopts its negotiating position on new rules for more sustainable packaging in the EU

The aim is to tackle the increase in packaging waste generated in the EU, while harmonising the internal market for packaging and boosting the circular economy

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8 January 202422 December 2023

Altera to be merged with DSD

Consolidation as part of the company's new direction - Employees with extensive expertise have already been taken on

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Three partners changing the narrative in plastic recycling at Site Zero

Svensk Plaståtervinning celebrated the opening of Site Zero, a state-of-the-art plastic sorting plant in Motala, Sweden. The plant features TOMRA and Sutco equipment and aims to realize a circular economy for plastics by sorting Swedish plastic packaging waste into 12 fractions

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5 January 202421 December 2023

LyondellBasell Advanced Recycling Project Selected For EU Innovation Fund Grant

The company’s MoReTec plant is one of the 41 projects selected in the EU Innovation Fund ‘Third Call for Large Scale Projects’

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3 January 202419 December 2023

New Trinseo PMMA Depolymerization Plant Reimagines Plastics Value Chain With Sustainability In Mind

Technology produces quality on par with virgin material without sacrificing performance

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Keter Expands Implementation of UBQ Materials’ Bio-Based, Sustainable Thermoplastic to Accelerate Emissions Removal and Avoidance

Keter and UBQ Materials to Realize Positive Environmental Impact of UBQ™, Rolling Out Carbon-Reduced Home and Outdoor Products

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13 December 20237 December 2023

Neste and Eppendorf forge strategic partnership to develop new line of renewable lab plastics

New Eppendorf consumables range cuts the use of fossil oil as a raw material in lab plastics, offering labs a more sustainable alternative. Neste supplies renewable Neste RE™ to replace conventional fossil feedstock in the lab plastics manufacturing