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A new multiyear, science-focused public-private partnership was launched yesterday at the UN General Assembly.
In its ‘Let’s talk about Chemical Recycling” series, the Plastics and Rubber Machinery division of the German VDMA association talks to experts and stakeholders active in the chemical recycling space.
BASF has announced the development and launch of a new range of drop-in additives based on bio-attributed raw materials according to a certified biomass balance approach.
It’s often said that the key to success is collaboration, and if this latest report from the Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment and Climate is anything to go by, that certainly seems to be the case in the case of waste plastic management.
Israel-based cleantech company UBQ Materials has raised $70 million in a financing round led by Eden Global Partners, the company announced today.
In an Aug. 9 earnings release, Co-CEO Rich Riley said that, as Origin first indicated in May 2022, the firm "is facing a higher-cost capital project environment than in early 2021, when we announced the initial plan for Origin 2," which will be located in Geismar, La.
The United Nations released the first draft of the global plastics treaty, setting up "intense" negotiations at the next formal round of talks in November.
At the Plast international plastics show in Milan, plastic resin distributor Montachem International and materials science company Loliware debuted their seaweed-based resins today, an event marking Loliware's entrance into Europe’s $3.5 billion bio-resin market.
The vulnerability of our ecosystems has never been more acute. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, has demonstrated the need for “immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors” if global warming is to be limited to 1.5° C.
Last week, at the Chemistry NL Summit on 21 Aug. 2023 in The Hague, a new publication on chemical recycling - and the relevance of this technology to achieving circularity for plastics - had its international launch.
UPM Raflatac has designed a product passport prototype (PPP), an environmental declaration, based on existing standards and norms, the company has announced.
A young Dutch start-up called Bywyd BV launched in 2022 with a vision. Bywyd, the Welsh word for ‘live’, strives to develop climate neutral polymers to help customers cut their carbon footprint in an affordable manner. Sustainable Plastics spoke with Jan Willem Slijkoord and Robert de Bruijn, the two cofounders of the young company.
FKuR today develops, produces and distributes broad portfolio of bio-plastic compounds, bio-based materials and post-consumer recyclates.
Of the vast amount of plastic packaging waste generated daily around the globe, PET bottles reportedly achieve one of the highest recycling rates in the industry.