Category: Chemical & Advanced Recycling
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Plastic and recycling – Does either save trees? (FREE)
Christmas trees have something in common with trees cut to make paper. Replacing them with other materials does not really save trees. Article by David Goldstein, Ventura County Public Works Agency Environmental Resource Analyst. This is a FREE article.
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Suez, Loop, and SK Geo Centric abandon Plans for Chemical Recycling Plant
The chemical recycling mirage is literally vanishing as we speak.
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South Africa goes for plastics mechanical recycling
New plastic mechanical recycling plants are still being built. One company is strongly believing in this option. They’re lucky that the industry / investors have been distracted by the BASF chemical recycling greenwashing bullshagga. Let me remind you that BASF wants to intoxicate the population by introducing PBAT poison into our compost streams.
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41% of plastic packaging waste recycled in 2022
This is a blatant lie. Eurostat data is corrupt. Eurostat is receiving the fake numbers from the industry and is not double checking anything. What an amateurism! Eurostat has been known to be a data circus. You can literally buy your way into Eurostat.
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Pyrolysis: the secret weapon in the fight against plastic waste?
They started with chemical recycling, then it became advanced recycling and now it’ back to pyrolysis…. how it was called 20 years ago. The weak leadership of the European Commission has led to a mega confusion in the terms used.
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New ReBioCycle Project on Novel Recycling and Upcycling Solutions for Bioplastics
Plastics can’t be recycled because the production process of plastics is highly efficient and not a single iota of energy or carbon flows freely within the polymeric structure. Plastic production and fossil carbon sourcing are highly efficient with the unwanted effect that plastic waste is literally worth nothing, just to get incinerated. The EU commission…
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Keurig to pay $1.5M settlement over statements on the recyclability of its K-Cup drink pods
And soon they’ll have to pay another settlement regarding the so-called compostability of their coffee pods.
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Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic’s Idea Work? CBS Reports (Video)
Cyclyx VP makes a bold statement on TV. I hope for them they thought it through because the backlash could potentially be considerable.
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Eastman combines molecular recycling with clean energy
‘Molecular’ recycling is a new greenwashed term for ‘chemical’ recycling. The industry believes that they policymakers can be fooled by just changing the name of the animal. But then again, EU policymakers have been fooled or complicit in promoting the recycling mirage for the last 35 years.
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Changhua breaks ground on carbon dioxide-to-polyols plant
Changhua breaks ground on carbon dioxide-to-polyols plant
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Trinseo Opens Next-Gen Depolymerization Facility in Italy
Trinseo Opens Next-Gen Depolymerization Facility in Italy
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Big Oil claims chemical recycling is the future of plastic. It’s pure delusion
Big Oil claims chemical recycling is the future of plastic. It’s pure delusion — The bioplastic industry was built on unfair commercial practices. A combination of aggressive lobbying, misappropriation of EU funds and ostracising the competition and independent media. To undo the bad karma, we must go back to the bioplastic birthplace and undo the…
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SCGC’s Circular Plas and TOYO Sign Agreement on Joint Development of Post-Consumer Plastics into Recycled Feedstock for Petrochemicals
SCGC’s Circular Plas and TOYO Sign Agreement on Joint Development of Post-Consumer Plastics into Recycled Feedstock for Petrochemicals
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Meet the Winners of Re-X Before Recycling Prize Phase 1
Meet the Winners of Re-X Before Recycling Prize Phase 1
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Deeptech Recycling Raises £2.1M To Expand Chemical Recycling Pilot
Deeptech Recycling Raises £2.1M To Expand Chemical Recycling Pilot
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Lux Research sees lack of plastic pyrolysis accomplishments
Lux Research sees lack of plastic pyrolysis accomplishments
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Closed-loop recycling of tough epoxy supramolecular thermosets constructed with hyperbranched topological structure
Closed-loop recycling of tough epoxy supramolecular thermosets constructed with hyperbranched topological structure
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Israel seeks to recycle plastic with bacteria
Israel seeks to recycle plastic with bacteria
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Agilyx technology produces on-spec product in Japan
Agilyx technology produces on-spec product in Japan
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INEOS Inovyn launches next generation recycling pilot plants for PVC
INEOS Inovyn launches next generation recycling pilot plants – to strengthen Europe’s PVC recycling.
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Dow and Freepoint Eco-Systems announce supply agreement to transform plastic waste into new circular products
Dow and Freepoint Eco-Systems announce supply agreement to transform plastic waste into new circular products
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NGO protest against unproven Eastman chemical recycling technology (Video)
NGO protest against unproven Eastman chemical recycling technology (Video)
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UTA Chemist Developing Method To Recycle More Plastics
UTA Chemist Developing Method To Recycle More Plastics
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New polystyrene recycling process could be world’s first to be both economical and energy-efficient
New polystyrene recycling process could be world’s first to be both economical and energy-efficient
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Ustma Launches Tire Recycling Foundation
Ustma Champions Tire Circularity With Launch Of Tire Recycling Foundation, Nationwide Push For Rubber-Modified Asphalt
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