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Project to Make Circular Plastic Films
The recycling industry is feeling the heat of compostable films and are leading a project to make circular plastic films in Belgium.
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Neste Interest Rate Influenced by Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Neste signs a new EUR 1.2 billion Revolving Credit Facility with a margin linked to its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.
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Bioplastics to Solve Invasive Algae in New Zealand
An out-of-the-box approach to a pest threatening to devastate native fish stocks in some of the South Island’s most iconic rivers has been developed by a young Kiwi entrepreneur.
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Anti-Bioplastics Amendment Adopted by French Parliament
A very suspicious amendment was adopted by French MP in the context of the new Circular Economy law.
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First Plastic-Free Ski Resort in Europe
Pejo 3000 in Trentino cuts use after discovering nearby glacier contained microplastics.
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Tipa in the Indian Newspapers
The other big task is finding sustainable alternatives to singleuse, multi-layer packaging used for chips, biscuits, etc, which is among the hardest to recycle. Tipa, headquartered in Hod Hasharon, Israel, has developed fully compostable flexible …
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Hollywood Makes Movie About PFAS
Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. It is based on the 2016 article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” by Nathaniel Rich, published in The New York Times Magazine.
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It’s Raining Microplastics in London
London has highest level yet recorded but health impacts of breathing particles are unknown.
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Plastic Consumer Trends in Israel
From municipal preschools to office kitchens, Israelis are starting to move away from damaging dependence on disposables.
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New French Bioplastic Federation Called Green Plasturgie
Due to the increasing number of attacks on plastic and more specifically on the packaging industry since 2018, and the recent legislative turmoil regarding the fight against waste and the circular economy, the industry has decided to create a new professional organisation called GREEN PLASTURGIE.
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PANGAIA Replaces Feathers with Wildflowers
With a concern for the treatment of ducks and geese during the gathering of feathers for down bedding and clothing, one company has developed a proprietary, cruelty-free alternative to traditional down. Called FLWRDWN, this down alternative, made from wildflowers, has taken scientists 10 years to develop.
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Terravive Path to Plastic-Free, Biodegradable Products
According to Plastic Oceans, 300 million tons of plastic is produced each year. Of that, 8 million tons ends up in the ocean. While completing her undergraduate education, Keeling began to seek a solution.
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Plainfield Food Pantry Uses New Bioplastic Bags
New Jersey is poised to ban plastic shopping bags and many other disposable plastic convenience items as part of an effort to help our environment.
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Top 3 Food and Beverage Packaging Trends for 2020
Packaging in the food and beverage industry is arguably just as important as the contents inside. The packaging is often the first thing that catches the consumers eye, so it needs to stand out.
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Consultation for Flexible Packaging Guidelines in the Circular Economy
CEFLEX is developing a set of design guidelines for consumer flexible packaging. The objective of the guidelines is to support and advise the entire value chain to design and specify flexible packaging suitable for collection, sorting and recycling after use.
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Where is Aldi in Their Packaging Strategy?
A year ago, Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd adopted a joint packaging strategy with concrete sustainability goals and measures. The key points of the strategy include the reduction of packaging costs and the use of plastics. Now the discount giants have taken stock.
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San Francisco Stops Using Disposable Coffee Cups
A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies.
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France Takes the Lead in Bulk Sales
Controlling the quantities and the budget, reducing packaging and consuming local and seasonal products: bulk sales have captured the spirit and conquer consumers in France, even if it is still a market niche.
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Panchkula Firm Develops Biodegradable Shoe
A 100% biodegradable shoe manufactured from sugarcane and eucalyptus with 82% of the material bio-based? Yes, you read it right!
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3D Printed Fruits With Vitamins and Minerals
With global bee populations dwindling at an astonishing rate, there is a risk that produce supplies will be diminished at some point in the near future. A new generation of innovators, such as Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate Meydan Levy, are coming up with food alternatives to prepare for the worst-case scenario.
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Cups and Bags Made From Pineapple Leaves
Developed by the Design Center of the Philippines, Pinyapel is a specialty paper made from pineapple leaves that would otherwise go to waste, which can be used to make a number of products from coffee cups to paper shopping bags.
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Super Bowl Goes Bioplastics
Truist, Footprint, Deliver Lean, Safer Watch and American Medical Response sign on to be part of South Florida’s 11th Super Bowl – a record-breaking game for Miami
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Vegware Adopts a Polar Bear
A heartfelt Thank You to all Vegware customers who purchased our polar bear Christmas cups this year.
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Neste Partners on Industrial Biolubricant
Collaboration with Neste enables AT-Tuote to launch the world’s first industrial lubricant with nearly 100% bio-based content.
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Vertoro Appoints New Scientific Advisor
Prof. Emiel Hensen has formally joined Vertoro as Scientific Advisor. His scientific track record and industrial network will add value to Vertoro.
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UK Waste Company Fined for Sending Biodegradable Waste to Landfill
Waste management firm Amey has been fined £500,000 by Cambridgeshire County Council for sending too much of the region’s biodegradable waste to landfill.
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Giant Eagle Eliminates Single-Use Plastic by 2025
Pittsburgh-based grocery store chain Giant Eagle announced Tuesday that it will eliminate single-use plastics by 2025.
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Avantium Appoints New CFO
Avantium announced the appointment of Bart Welten as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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Brent Council Introduces Biodegradable Bag for Parking Tickets
New biodegradable bags for parking tickets handed out in Brent means they are now ‘plastic free’.
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Compostable Plastic? Not So Much, Says Los Angeles Times
Most people know by now that the disposable plastic used for take-out food is an environmental hazard. Containers, cups, utensils, straws — very little of it gets recycled and very much of it ends up polluting the oceans, lakes and rivers of the world.
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Biodegradable Construction Materials for Farmhouses
People look for new ways to go green every day. They embrace things like solar energy panels that have become more affordable over the years and cars that operate on alternative fuels.
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Queen Says To Deliver on Plastics Commitments
In her formal State Opening of Parliament this morning (19 December), the Queen urged ministers to deliver progress on the Government’s net-zero goal ahead of COP26.
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Avantium Appoints New Chairman of Supervisory Board
Avantium announced that Mr. Edwin Moses has been appointed as Chairman of its Supervisory Board.
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SUP and Paper Bags Fee in Denver City
After a brief but mostly supportive public comment session, the Denver City Council unanimously approved a measure Monday night which would require retail stores to charge customers 10 cents for each single-use plastic or paper bag they use.
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Rapid Biodegradability of Walki Bioska Films
It’s a proven fact: the biodegradability of Walki’s Bioska films are among the fastest on the market.
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Kaneka Builds 5.000 tons PHBH Plant
Kaneka has completed the capacity building of its Biodegradable Polymer PHBH at the Takasago Plant. The completion ceremony was held on December 17th.
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Braskem, Biowash, Greco and Guerreiro Partner on Bioplastic Packaging
Petrochemical company Braskem has established a partnership with two companies to develop new packaging from biobased plastics and post-consumer resin (PCR).
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Bacardi Launches Bioplastics Glasses Made of Rice Husks
Bacardi launches bio-based, recyclable glasses made out of rice husks.
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California Attempts to Decrease Use of Single-Use Plastic
With environmentalism being an issue in recent years, California attempted to pass legislation this year meant to change the way California handles and recycles plastic to better help the environment due to the damage it is doing to the environment.
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It’s Time to Trash Recycling
Traditional recycling is the greatest example of modern-day greenwashing.
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Tipa Tackles Single-Use Plastic Waste
An Israeli start-up has developed durable, transparent and fully compostable flexible packaging for fruits, vegetables and dry and baked foods.
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Interview With Radical Plastics Co-Founders
Radical Plastics Cofounders Yelena Kann and Kristin Taylor have extensive backgrounds in polymers and plastics engineering, both having worked for major chemical companies in the past.
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40 Finalists For the €100K Sustainable Industry Challenge
Following an intensive selection procedure, a couple of industrial companies, the challenge setters, together with the initiator Economic Board Groningen, selected 40 innovative companies (scale-ups) from 13 different countries and invited them to the two-day final event of the Sustainable Industry Challenge, Chemport Europe edition in the north of the Netherlands.
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Compostable Products Have A Role
In October, Greenpeace released a report entitled, “Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Solutions”.
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Boston University Chemists Develop New Biodegradable Adhesive
Provides environmentally friendly option to traditional plastic adhesives. Boston University professor Mark Grinstaff, and his team of researchers, are working to find eco-friendly alternatives to plastics.
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The Circular Economy Briefing by Reuters
This 42-page in-depth report by Reuters covers the latest circular economy trends to help companies tackle climate change.
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Will Hemp Become Green Gold in the UK?
Introducing hemp, the UK’s secret green gold mine that could help save the planet.
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Nokian Tyres Goes Bioplastics
Nokian Tyres changes the cases of its tires in favour of bioplastics ones.
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Marine Bioplastic Could Be Multi Billion Dollar Industry
Technological advances involving algae, crabs and prawns could spark a multi-billion dollar industry for the production of biodegradable biopolymers for plastic making, according to a new E.U. study.
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Mattel Goes Bioplastics
Mattel Announces Goal to Achieve 100% Recycled, Recyclable or Bio-based Plastic Materials in All Products and Packaging By 2030. Mattel will introduce an environmentally sustainable version of the iconic Fisher-Price® Rock-a-Stack® in the first half of 2020.
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The BP Chemical Recycling Consortium
Companies join forces to help tackle plastic waste with BP’s enhanced recycling technology. New cross-industry consortium to make enhanced recycling of polyester plastics a commercial reality, contributing to the development of a global circular economy for plastics.
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Innovate From Nature with POLYSORB® – the High Purity Isosorbide
Improving performance through plant-based innovations is a key market trend, and this is exactly what Roquette delivers. As a key provider, Roquette offers the polymer markets innovative and sustainable monomers to create solutions for safer and more sustainable polymers.
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US Moving to Standardisation of Hempcrete
ASTM Cannabis Committee Seeds Standard for Lime-Based Hempcrete.
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VTT Buys Hydroprocessing Bench Scale To Fasttrack Bioeconomy
hte – the high throughput experimentation company, has supplied a customised four-fold bench scale hydroprocessing unit to VTT, a Finnish research, development and innovation organisation.
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NREL Discovers Superhero Algal Strain
US Researchers Discover Fast-growing, Resilient Algal Strain. Will the Americans become the leaders in algae and seaweed bioplastics?
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Moncler Goes Bioplastics
New technologies are helping the beloved outerwear brand to make use of natural materials that don’t negatively impact the environment.
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Natural Rubber Industry On the Brink of Collapse
Halcyon Agri launches BOUNCE, the world’s first sustainable rubber movement anchored by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. New initiative aims to create industry and consumer awareness for fair, equitable and sustainable natural rubber.
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First Lego Set Made From Bioplastics
LEGO Goes Green: The Toy Company Announces its First Steps Towards Sustainability with its New Toy.
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Tipa Bioplastics Branded As Plastic-Free in the UK
High-end supplier develops packaging for Natoora, Waitrose and Whole Foods that can be recycled and home-composted.
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Avantium Ray Technology Video
“Sugar is the new oil”. Watch this short clip featuring Avantium CEO Tom van Aken, RNC Managing Director Zanna McFerson, and CEO of Suiker Unie Paul Mesters who talk about the importance of RAY across the entire value chain from feedstock to market applications.
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Peter Vanacker, Person of the Year 2019
It was a logic decision to choose Peter Vanacker as the Person of the Year 2019. Peter has been this year’s best CEO in the bioeconomy.
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Invisible Bar Codes To Improve Recycling
By making it possible for recycling facilities to quickly scan a bottle or packaging and learn what it’s made of and where it’s from, this new tech could make recycling more efficient and accurate.
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Japan Scientists Develop Biodegradable Nanofiber Sensor
Scientists in western Japan have developed a biodegradable humidity sensor for farm-use.
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DOE Plans To Fund Bioplastics
The U.S. Department of Energy published a notice of intent on Dec. 10 announcing plans to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that will support research and development for new biobased plastics that are capable of efficiency recyclability.
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Clariant and Plant Advanced Technologies Partner for Sustainable Cosmetics
Clariant becomes strategic partner for product development and exclusive global distributor for all new co-developed products. Clariant to subscribe to approx. 10% equity of PAT.
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Bioplastic Sneakers Will be a Rage in 2020
Eco-friendly meatless food products shook up the fast food industry in 2019. Experts say next year’s game-changing trend in sustainable consumer goods may be plant-based — or “vegan” — athletic shoes.
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New Zealand Biobased Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM), including 3D and 4D printing, encompasses some of the most promising technologies currently available. News stories regularly appear featuring exciting creations or innovations from houses to human hearts, all made possible with AM technologies.
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DSM Blames Companies for Greenwashing
We had politicians putting political correctness aside and now we have a large company doing it. DSM is blaming many companies for bending the truth for their commercial advantage; with a little wink for the Volkswagen Group.
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GE and Agilyx Introduce AI in Chemical Recycling
Bringing artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive modeling to chemical recycling. Aiming to improve recycling of post-use plastics to >95%.
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The Irish Bioplastic Leader
Prof Kevin O’Connor, the first scientist to convert non-degradable plastics into biodegradable plastics, has won the Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year Award.
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Why is Finland a Bioeconomy Champion?
Exclusive Interview with the Permanent Secretary of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry in Finland, Jaana Husu-Kallio, on the Finnish bioeconomy and why Finland is a bioeconomic champion.
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Stora Enso Ice Cream Packaging Wins International Award
A fibre-based ice cream package designed by Stora Enso for the Finnish artisan ice cream manufacturer Vanhan Porvoon Jäätelötehdas has been awarded in the international WorldStar competition.
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Pioneers of Blue Bioplastics in the Netherlands
When it comes to global-scale issues, it’s often the small, localized problems that spur people to action. While the often-dire rhetoric of the climate crisis is a powerful driver of green technology, it was the visual blight of pollutants floating in the shore waters off their favorite Dutch beach that caused two intrepid Hollanders to…
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New Bioplastics Packaging Made in China
A new material that can keep vegetables and fruit fresh and prevent fogging in food packaging was displayed at a seminar on preservation of agricultural products over the weekend.
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Funding Round for Biocement
bioMASON, the Triangle startup seeking to remake the cement and other construction materials industry, is looking to build a bigger future with a fundraising round aimed at securing $18 million.
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Blue Bottle Coffee Company Stops Using Plastic and Paper Cups
Blue Bottle is putting an end to its plastic and paper cups, the Oakland company announced Monday.
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European Bioplastics Conference Report 2019
The 14th European Bioplastics Conference took place on 3 and 4 of this month. Once again, the event lived up to its reputation as the leading business and networking platform for the global bioplastics industry.
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Microplastics is Bigger Problem than Expected
New research suggests the scale of plastic pollution in our oceans could be a million times worse than previously recorded. The researchers analysed the intestines of tiny filter-feeding invertebrates called salps, finding previously undetected mini-microplastics.
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The Double Sustainability Standard of Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola First to Launch Oled Packaging at Commercial Scale, but is it sustainable?
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The Wincup PHA Phade Straw Video
WinCup President Michael Winters and COO Brad Laporte introduce their “phade” straws, an environmentally-conscious alternative to plastic and paper straws.
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German Designer Disrupts Shampoo Packaging With Soapbottle
Soapbottle is a packaging made from soap.
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Carrefour Adapts its Shopping Bag Strategy
The fight against plastic is a major challenge for the retail sector. Carrefour made it a priority in its Act For Food strategy.
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Why France Will Ban Paper and Cardboard Cups?
The French Parliament discovered that cardboard and paper cups are not recyclable.
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France Bans All Plastic Packaging in 2040
Every year 100 billion disposable plastic products are put on the market in France. Several measures of the anti-waste bill for a circular economy are devoted to combating the pollution caused by these plastics.
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US Bioeconomy Plays Critical Role in Feeding, Fueling and Healing the World
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) has submitted comments to the Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) on the bioeconomy, explaining the critical role America’s biotechnology industry plays in feeding, fueling, and healing the world.
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The Canadian Bioeconomy Needs You !
Global Affairs Canada, through the Embassy of Canada in Berlin and in collaboration with the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), is pleased to receive your application to participate in the ‘Canadian Bioeconomy Cooperative R&D Partnering Mission to Germany’, which will take place from 2-6 March, 2020.
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European Bioplastics Welcomes Green Deal
European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association representing the interests of the bioplastics industry, welcomes the communication on the European Green Deal, which was recently published by the EU Commission.
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France Adopts Amendment That Will Change Bioplastics Industry
French Parliament adopts amendment that will have serious consequences for compostable packaging in France.
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Two Cape Fear Breweries Awarded for Bioplastics
Two breweries in the Cape Fear Region have received statewide recognition for efforts to reduce their environmental footprint.
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Azerbaijan to Start Producing Bioplastics
Azerbaijan will build its first bioplastic plant in the High Technology Park in Pirallahi, in the outskirts of Baku, Board Chairman of the Azerbaijan’s Innovation Agency Tural Karimli has said.
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BBI JU Contribution to the UN SDGS
A new study by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) summarises the contribution of its projects to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations (UN).
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Interview With Director Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association (UK)
Resource talks with David Newman, Managing Director of the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) about his quest to clean up food waste and get compostables into the mainstream.
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Carbios First to Bio-Recycle Plastic at Industrial Scale
The company has developed a unique, sustainable technology using highly specific enzymes that can recycle PET plastics and polyester fibers feedstock.
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Sulzer PLAnet Bioplastic Technology Creates Market Opportunities for Sugar Producers
The growing appetite for sustainable bioplastic made from polylactic acid (PLA) is opening new doors to corn, sugar beet and sugar cane farmers. Their produce offers access to unique opportunities for business growth. How can the agricultural industry get a foothold in this market landscape?
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Sulapac and Quadpack Join Forces for Sustainable Cosmetic Packaging
Sulapac, a pioneer in development and manufacturing of sustainable microplastic-free materials, and Quadpack, an international provider of packaging solutions to the beauty industry, have entered into a preferred partnership agreement to provide microplastic-free packaging for cosmetic customers worldwide.
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Key Points of the EU Green Deal
The European Commission unveiled its hotly anticipated European Green Deal on Wednesday (11 October), outlining a long list of policy initiatives aimed at putting Europe on track to reach net-zero global warming emissions by 2050.
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The Great Recycling Con
The greatest trick corporations ever played was making us think we could recycle their products.
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French Paper and Cardboard Tableware Industry Dies in January 2023
The amendment CD1013 causes serious trouble in the French paper and cardboard packaging industry.
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