Year: 2020
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Plastic Waste due to Corona
All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic.
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Michelin Invests in Canadian Styrene Recycler
Pyrowave closes Series B led by Michelin and Sofinnova Partners. The investment marks a significant step forward making plastic circularity a reality.
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Plastic Polluters to Save Circular Economy in Asia
Multi-million dollar investments in recyclers in India and Indonesia, backed by PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and other big plastic-using corporations, point to the only way to save the recycling industry, say experts.
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Corona Impact on Bioplastics in April
Impact of corona confinement measures on the bioplastics sector for April 2020.
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Emporia State University Award for Bioplastics
Emporia State University student Mitchell DeWalt claimed the top prize in the 2020 Emporia Entrepreneur Challenge.
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US DOE BETO Peer Review Report
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosted the 2019 Project Peer Review on March 4–7, 2019, in Denver, Colorado.
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Its safe to go Back to Work says Dow CEO
Dow Inc. CEO Jim Fitterling on Thursday detailed how the company is continuing to operate its plants and labs while trying to protect workers from the coronavirus.
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Chinese Invent Cellulose Nanofiber Plate CNFP
Plastic gives us a lightweight, strong and inexpensive material to use, but it has also caused the plastic apocalypse.
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Wood-based Biodegradable Alternative to Plastic Netting
Jac. Vandenberg, a leading U.S. fresh produce importer, is transitioning from plastic nets used to pack their citrus fruits in favor of a compostable alternative made from beech tree pulp.
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Cambridge Bioplastics Spin-Out Secures £2M
Firm out of University of Cambridge battling microplastic polution will use new funding to create products.
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Supercritical CO2 Knowledge Centre in NL
In a collaboration, seven companies, the University of Groningen and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, partially based on Campus Groningen, do research after the added value of supercritical CO2 for a sustainable production of chemical products.
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Consider Hygiene in Packaging Laws
Letter from FPA to Rt Hon George Eustice MP, Secretary of State, Defra .
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US Plastic Industry Asks $1 Billion Bailout
Plastics Industry Requests $1 Billion Bailout From Fed.
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Compostable Plastic Film Not so Sustainable
Ever wondered why your print copy of Physics World is still delivered wrapped in plastic?
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US Develops New Method to Recycle Polyurethanes
Researchers at the University of Minnesota are part of a national team in the Center for Sustainable Polymers that has found a better way to recycle a versatile plastic material, called polyurethanes, that could prevent the material from becoming waste.
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ACC Chemical Recycling Alliance Changes Name
The Chemical Recycling Alliance of the Washington-based American Chemistry Council (ACC) has changed its name to the Advanced Recycling Alliance for Plastics (ARAP) to reflect its growing membership and variety of members’ advanced recycling technologies.
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Compostable is not Always a Green Panacea
Next to empty shelves where toilet paper used to be is a stretch of aisle stacked with trash bags, disposable cups, and cutlery at a Whole Foods in Seattle.
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Green Dot Bioplastics Joins Plant Based Products Council
Council seeks to guide the global economy toward more sustainable and responsible consumer products and packaging through greater use of bio-based materials.
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Dow Q1 Results
Net sales were $9.8 billion, down 11% versus pro forma results in the year-ago period, primarily driven by lower local prices in all operating segments due to a decline in global energy prices.
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New Investments in TerraVerdae
Alberta, federal and other funding partners have invested in new product development capacity at TerraVerdae Bioworks Inc. for fully biodegradable, high-performance bioplastics.
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Corbion Q1 Results
Corbion reported sales of € 256.3 million in the first quarter of 2020, an increase of 12.0% due to organic sales growth of 9.6% and positive currency effects.
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BASF Quarter Results
BASF Group shows resilience amid corona crisis with diversified portfolio and financial solidity.
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Clariant Pre Corona Results Still Downwards
Sales from continuing operations decreased by 6 % in local currency to CHF 1.019 billion.
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Boat Made from Mushrooms
Is fungus the answer to climate change? Student who grew a mushroom canoe says yes.
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Financing of Good Natured Acquisition of Shepherd
good natured Products Inc. Announces BDC Financing and Update on the Acquisition of Shepherd Thermoforming & Packaging Inc.
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Circulate Capital Ocean Fund Makes 1st Investment
Circulate Capital invested $6 million in plastics recycling companies in India and Indonesia, the brand-backed firm’s first outlay designed to prevent marine plastics.
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Norwegian Designers Lead the Circular Economy
“More stuff will not make us happier,” say the designers and brands behind this year’s Norwegian Presence showcase, who are calling for an industry-wide shift towards recycled and recyclable objects.
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Quality Recycling According to Attero
Interview with Berry Bellert, Sales Engineer / Development Plastics Recycling at Dutch environmental company, Atterro.
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Shareholders Meetings During The Corona
Let’s look at how Avantium is organising its Annual General Meeting in times of Corona.
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Molecular Weight Reduction is Biodegradation Criteria
The environmental accumulation of plastics worldwide is a consequence of the durability of the material. Alternative polymers, marketed as biodegradable, present a potential solution to mitigate their ecological damage.
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BIC 2019 Report
The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) has published its Annual Report 2019, presenting the highlights of its work over the past year.
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Ocean Plastic Swimwear
Stay Wild is on a mission to create truly sustainable and ethical swimwear that’s well-designed and flattering for all women.
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Satellites and Machine Learning to Detect Ocean Plastic
How Satellites And Machine Learning Are Being Used To Detect Plastic In The Ocean.
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Ocean Plastic Face Masks
Helping the oceans is helping humans protect from the coronavirus. Diving school PADI are helping the ocean and humans at the same time by turning recycled plastic water bottles into coronavirus masks.
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TripleW Partners for Lactic Acid
Group Op de Beeck Materials & Treatment and TripleW launch intensive collaboration on the conversion of organic waste into biobased plastics.
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Ukraine To Limit Corn Exports
Ukraine is considering limiting corn exports in the 2019/20 season to 29.3 million tonnes, APK-Inform agriculture consultancy said on Friday.
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California Suspends Plastic Bag Ban
Gov. Gavin Newsom has suspended California’s ban on grocery stores providing single-use plastic bags amid concerns that clerks may be at risk for exposure to the coronavirus if shoppers are required to supply their own reusable bags to carry their purchases home.
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Agilyx Expands Executive Team
Agilyx Corporation, the leader in chemical recycling of post-use plastics back into polymers, chemicals and low carbon fuels, today announced the addition of three executive team members: Russell Main, Chief Financial Officer; William St. Lawrence, General Council; and industry advisor, Robert Walsh, who will guide the Company’s maritime fuels business.
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Bio Economy Best Practices
The bioeconomy transition is routed in new opportunities with high potential of replication at EU level. To this end, it is important to identify which measures could potentially have a high impact on the bio- based economy.
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Tealeaves Goes Futamura Natureflex
TEALEAVES will be transitioning to backyard compostable tea envelopes, made of NatureFlex, in 2021.
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Selfridges Goes for Futamura Natureflex
This Christmas Selfridges is launching a sustainable alternative to plastic packaging across its own brand range of festive food using innovative home compostable cellulose film NatureFlex.
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Horrible Hybrids, the Recycling Nightmare
Horrible hybrids’: the plastic products that give recyclers nightmares. From singing birthday cards to baby food pouches, a growing trend of mixing materials is making recycling even harder.
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Barbados Ban on Fossil Plastics Suspensed
Barbados’ ban on petro-based plastics is temporarily suspended amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Canada Starts Banning Compostable Plastics
Bye-bye single-use plastics: new bylaw in effect in Dawson City. Compostable and biodegradable plastic utensils, cups or containers included in bylaw.
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Cameroon Seizes Non Biodegradable Packaging
Cameroon: Customs seizes 50 tons of non-biodegradable plastic packaging in the Northern region.
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Covestro Wins Climate Hero Award
For the 5th time, UNICEPTA honours the best communicative performance of the past year with the Thought Leadership Award.
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How Big is EU Bioeconomy?
The critical role of the Circular Bioeconomy in the sustainable transition has been widely recognised, to the point that a number of countries worldwide have elaborated their bioeconomy strategies and others are in the process of framing their own.
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Chemical Recycling is Solution for Plastic Pollution
The world is drowning in plastic. About 60% of the more than 8,700 million metric tonnes of plastic ever made is no longer in use, instead sat mostly in landfill or released to the environment.
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Ineos and Plastic Energy to Build Chemical Recycling Plant
INEOS and Plastic Energy are to build a new pyrolysis-based chemical recycling plant to come on stream at the end of 2023.
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Bioplastics and Wishcycling
Many people try to help the earth by taking modest steps such as not using plastic straws and recycling.
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NL Starts Small Plastic Bottle Deposit
As of next summer, there will be a 15 cent deposit on all plastic bottles under 1 liter, State Secretary Van Veldhoven writes to the House of Representatives.
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Harvard to Disrupt PHA Technology
Engineered microbes can produce biodegradable plastics at lower cost and environmental impact than plant-based plastics.
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Stora Enso Issues Green Bond
HELSINKI, April 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Stora Enso has successfully issued a new SEK 1 700 million green bond under its EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) programme and under Stora Enso’s Green Bond Frame work published in May 2018.
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NatureWorks Donates PLA for Masks
NatureWorks has donated enough Ingeo biopolymer needed to produce as many as two million reusable N95 masks per week from a new spunbond nonwoven structure.
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Braskem Supply Chain During Corona
Braskem Deploys Enhanced Polymer Production Support to Meet Medical Equipment Manufacturing Essential Needs Amid COVID-19 Pandemic.
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New Vice-Chairman Circular Biobased Delta
Freek van Eijk, CEO of Holland Circular Hotspot and Managing Director of Acceleratio, has been appointed as a board member and vice-chairman of the Circular Biobased Delta Foundation.
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Impact of Corona on Corn Prices
Analysis released by the National Corn Growers Association today showed cash corn prices have declined by 16 percent on average, with several regions experiencing declines of more than 20 percent, since March 1 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Taghleef Vision on Quality Recycling
CEFLEX Sustainable End Markets workstream is planning industrial scale trials delivering higher-value end market applications for flexible packaging. This work is building the business case for investment and delivery of a Quality Recycling Process, able to unlock the environmental and economic potential of mechanical recycling.
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Avantium Receives Grant from NL
Avantium awarded funding to produce lignin for the development of bio-based asphalt.
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Coca-Cola and Pepsico Not Respecting Plastic Pledge
Tearfund NGO says drinks makers not doing enough to tackle their plastic pollution.
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Letter from Establishment to EU on Corona
Brussels, 22th April – Cefic, represented by its President, Daniele Ferrari joined a group of 23 CEOs calling on EU leaders to unify their actions towards tackling the challenges of COVID-19.
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EU Commission Not Amused with Plastic Lobby
The European Commission’s Green Deal chief, Frans Timmermans, assured EU lawmakers on Tuesday (21 April) that “every euro” spent on economic recovery measures after the COVID-19 crisis would be linked to the green and digital transitions. EURACTIV Germany reports.
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Mitsui Business, Environmental and Social Goals 2025
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan embodies our strong commitment toward realizing sustainable growth and development along with society.
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Danish Judge Condemns Calling PLA Biodegradable
Can you call a pot biodegradable when it only composts under very specific circumstances, like in an industrial composting plant?
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Japanese Bioplastic Beads and Scrub
Green Science Alliance Develops Biodegradable Resin Beads, Scrub to Replace Micro Plastic Beads, Scrub, Pollution, in Facial Wash, Body Soap, Tooth Paste, Cosmetics, Etc.
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Bioplastic Floorball Equipment
Sustainability is something that any responsible company cannot overlook these days. Floorball equipment manufacturer UNIHOC is now tapping into the area with its first ECO product.
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PLA Furniture in South Korea
For South Korean artist Ryu Jong-dae, it’s important that his works not only push the envelope of modern design, but also explore environmentally friendly choices.
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Sabic Vision on Circular Economy
Innovation and collaboration are vital for the success of plastics in the circular economy.
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Lobby to Classify PHA as Natural Polymer
Status of PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoates) as a class of Natural Polymers that have not been chemically modified.
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Mechanical and Geometric Performance of PLA Composites
In this work, the effect of short carbon fibre (CF) on the mechanical and geometric properties of 3D printed polylactic acid (PLA) composite parts processed using the Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technique have been analysed.
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Evian Certified as Carbon Neutral
French firm says it has achieved goal set at Paris climate conference through offsetting and significant carbon reduction efforts across its design, production, shipping, and recycling operations.
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Supply Chain Total Corbion During Corona
Corona preventive measures and our ongoing ability to supply Luminy® PLA.
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Australia to Review Waste Storage Laws
A review of Victoria’s dangerous goods laws has been appointed to answer the state’s recycling and waste crisis.
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BASF Partners to Accelerate Circular Plastics
BASF plastic additives business leverages on its expertise as a global market leader. Proprietary technology from Security Matters to improve the traceability and sorting of plastics in the value chain.
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Aramco Buys Sabic at Worse Time
Aramco agreed last year to buy the controlling stake in SABIC from the kingdom’s wealth fund for $69.1 billion, sealing one of the biggest-ever deals in the global chemical industry.
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The Corona Conspiracies
Let’s look at some of the corona conspiracy theories in circulation at this moment, some more exotic than others.
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Top 5 Best Biodegradable Trash Bags of 2020
Every time we can replace single-use plastic with something recyclable or biodegradable, we are taking another step toward protecting the earth and saving the environment. One easy swap is switching to biodegradable trash bags.
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Degradable Mulching Films Studied in US
A federal grant matched by New York state and RIT is enabling university researchers to study a competitive solution to polyethylene mulch and identify a more sustainable alternative to conventionally used plastics in farming.
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Marine Bioplastics by Cornell University
To address the plastic environmental crisis, Cornell chemists have developed a new polymer with ample strength in a marine setting that is poised to degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published March 30 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Dutch Project to Convert Biomass
PERFORM project has been started as a consequence of increasing demand in the chemical industry to be more sustainable and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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German Government Looking for Green Talents
Striving for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research. Every year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas from various fields of research.
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Michelin Partners on Pyrolysis Technology
Michelin and Enviro partner to develop an innovative technology to transform used tires into raw materials.
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Borealis Increase Stake in Novealis
Borealis AG has completed the acquisition of Nova Chemicals’ 50 percent ownership interest in Novealis Holdings LLC (Novealis).
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Recyqualipso for PS Recycling in France
COEXPAN is participating in the French RECYQUALIPSO initiative led by Syndifrais (French Union of Fresh Dairy Product Manufacturers) in collaboration with Valorplast (experts in the recycling of household plastic packing).
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Circular Economy Principles
For most of us, using a product once before throwing it away is a daily habit. Beverage bottles, food containers, and other packaging are sanitary and convenient, but our disposable world brings consequences that must be addressed: Trash is ending up in our rivers and oceans, threatening wildlife and food supplies.
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Chemical Recycling of PS in Japan
Agilyx Corporation (“Agilyx”), the leader in chemical recycling of post-use plastics back into polymers, chemicals, and low carbon fuels, announces the licensing of its technology to Toyo Styrene Co., LTD (“Toyo Styrene”), an affiliate of Denka Company Limited.
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Plastic Mulch Damages Soil
China has led the world in using plastic-film mulch to increase the productivity of its crops, and now it needs to lead the world in removing the plastic residue damaging its croplands, according to a study out this week.
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EU Circular Bio Society
By 2050, Europe will have a sustainable and competitive bio-based industry providing jobs and growth that contribute to a circular bio-society.
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Covestro Adjusts 2020 Financial Guidance
Covestro adjusts FY 2020 financial guidance due to effects of the Coronavirus pandemic after reaching its EBITDA target in Q1 2020.
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Off Grid Buildings with Hemp and Solar
A team of organizations has completed construction of a ground-breaking eco-building in Morocco that combines hemp construction with a high-tech solar energy system for total independence from the electrical grid.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Goes Biocomposites
Sappi is proud to announce that its Symbio bio-composite cellulose fibre which is derived from responsibly managed, renewable forests has been chosen as feedstock for the development of lightweight bio-composite materials, for the Life Biobcompo project.
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Biodegradable Packaging for Mykirei by Kao
Kao USA is ready to launch MyKirei by Kao, which it says is a comprehensive collection of products that marks the company’s efforts to redefine corporate responsibility.
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Biopak Cups with Aboriginal Art
BioPak has partnered with community development organisation SevGen Indigenous Corporation and Plastic Free Noosa to release a limited edition Art Series BioCup that puts Aboriginal art into the hands of our global community.
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