Category: Chemical & Advanced Recycling
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Vitrimerization as a bridge of chemical and mechanical recycling
Vitrimerization as a bridge of chemical and mechanical recycling
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BlueAlp and RES partner to build Italy’s first 20kta advanced plastic recycling plant
BlueAlp and RES partner to build Italy’s first 20kta advanced plastic recycling plant
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Exxon chemical recycling in Houston may be in danger
Exxon chemical recycling in Houston may be in danger
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Colorado may end incentives for advanced recycling
Colorado may end incentives for advanced recycling
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Brightmark Announces Intent to Invest $950 million in Upson County, Georgia to Tackle Plastic Pollution
Brightmark Announces Intent to Invest $950 million in Upson County, Georgia to Tackle Plastic Pollution
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BIR position paper on chemical recycling
Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) position paper on chemical recycling
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Colorado communities against chemical recycling
Colorado communities against chemical recycling
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Encina Development cancels massive US chemical recycling plant
Encina Development cancels massive US chemical recycling plant
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Mura and Ghent University partner on chemical recycling
Mura Partners with Ghent University’s Laboratory for Chemical Technology to Explore Advanced Recycling Capabilities
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Borealis invests EUR 4.5 million in Porvoo steam cracker, enabling increased share of circular raw materials used in production
Borealis invests EUR 4.5 million in Porvoo steam cracker, enabling increased share of circular raw materials used in production
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Borealis further expands its advanced mechanical recycling capacity with closing the acquisition of Integra Plastics AD
Borealis further expands its advanced mechanical recycling capacity with closing the acquisition of Integra Plastics AD
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Big brands like P&G and Nestlé say chemical recycling will help meet environmental goals, but the technology is struggling to deliver (NY Times)
Well, US and EU politicians are easily convinced by the promises made by the industry … but at some point the plastic waste will hit the fan
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Aliplast to build chemical recycling plant in Italy
Aliplast to build chemical recycling plant in Italy
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What is chemical recycling? (EHN)
What is chemical recycling? Article by Environmental Health Sciences
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New Bill to Ban Advanced / Chemical Plastic Recycling in US
New Bill to Ban Advanced / Chemical Plastic Recycling in US
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Exploratory DSC investigation on the solvolytic depolymerization of PET in varied solvent systems and in the presence of model additives and contaminants
Exploratory DSC investigation on the solvolytic depolymerization of PET in varied solvent systems and in the presence of model additives and contaminants
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Sweden’s chemical recycling plant Site Zero (Update)
Update on Sweden’s chemical recycling plant Site Zero
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Denka and Toyo Styrene complete chemical recycling plant for PS
Denka and Toyo Styrene complete chemical recycling plant for PS
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Multi-color polymer carbon dots synthesized from waste polyolefins through phenylenediamine-assisted hydrothermal processing
Multi-color polymer carbon dots synthesized from waste polyolefins through phenylenediamine-assisted hydrothermal processing
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Dow and P&G partner for new recycling technology
Dow and Procter & Gamble to develop a new proprietary recycling technology targeting hard-to-recycle plastic waste
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Eastman selected by US DOE to Receive up to $375 million investment for chemical recyclig plant
It’s not appropriate to give millions to a multibillion dollar plastic company in this current economic context. In addition, the chemical recycling technology hasn’t been proven yet and there’s no popular support for this kind of projects.
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Ohio citizens try to block construction of chemical recycling plants
There’s an increasing citizen opposition against chemical recycling in the US.
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NRDC sues DOE over recycling
NRDC Sues DOE for Records of Convos with the Chemical Industry
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Eastman chemical recycling plant starts operations
Eastman molecular recycling facility achieves on-spec initial production and is generating revenue
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Interview with TotalEnergies Corbion VP Asia
Interview with TotalEnergies Corbion VP Asia
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Light-driven polymer recycling to monomers and small molecules
Light-driven polymer recycling to monomers and small molecules
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New route to recyclable polymers from plants (Hokkaido University)
Chemically Recyclable Unnatural (1→6)-Polysaccharides from Cellulose-Derived Levoglucosenone and Dihydrolevoglucosenone
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UNSW New method aims for more plastic recycling
University of New South Wales New method aims for more plastic recycling
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SK chemicals, Hyosung Advanced Materials, and Hankook Tire Commercialize South Korea’s First Chemically Recycled PET Tire
SK chemicals, Hyosung Advanced Materials, and Hankook Tire Commercialize South Korea’s First Chemically Recycled PET Tire
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Perspectives on sustainable plastic treatment: A shift from linear to circular economy
Chemical upcycling of plastic provides a sustainable method for plastic waste management.
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Managing the future of plastic: key recommendations for Government
Academics call for initiative in plastics recycling
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Low-energy chemical recycling method could offer solution for mixed and biobased plastics
Low-energy chemical recycling method could offer solution for mixed and biobased plastics
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Will chemical recycling in Michigan turn into a fiasco?
Will chemical recycling in Michigan turn into a fiasco?
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Zeon Completes Construction of chemical Recycling Plant
Zeon Completes Construction Of Recycling Plant For Cyclo Olefin Polymers
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Recycling plastic is not a quick fix
Recycling is an accepted formula for sustainable resource use, but in the case of plastic it can have serious side effects, says Helene Wiesinger – and uses the example of plastic flooring in Switzerland to illustrate the dilemma.
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Embrace Sustainable Plastic Technologies And Don’t Be Obsessed With Recycling, Says Symphony Environmental (FREE)
A recent report from the Centre for Climate Integrity claims it has uncovered shocking insights into how the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and contributed to the plastic waste crisis. This is a FREE article
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Car Industry should research plastic recycling claims made by their suppliers
Car industry should beware that plastic recycling claims are fraudulent
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Aldi pioneers transparency in flexible plastic recycling via the Flexible Plastic Fund
Aldi pioneers transparency in flexible plastic recycling via the Flexible Plastic Fund
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A state-of-the-art review of multilayer packaging recycling: Challenges, alternatives, and outlook
A state-of-the-art review of multilayer packaging recycling: Challenges, alternatives, and outlook
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Five factors to watch in US and Asian recycling
Five factors to watch in US and Asian recycling
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Renewcell is bankrupt
Stockholm District Court approves Re:NewCell’s bankruptcy application — EU circular economy is crumbling down due to unsound EU macroeconomic policies.
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P&G settles plastics recyclability claims lawsuit in the Philippines
P&G, consumers in false recyclable label ads, dangerous plastic complaint sign mediation agreement
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LyondellBasell JV starts chemical recycling operations in Germany
Source One Plastics Starts Operations at Plastic Waste Sorting and Recycling Facility
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Itero awarded €5m for chemical recycling
Itero awarded €5m from EU’s Just Transition Fund — They seem to be afraid of using the word ‘chemical recycling’ and they’re making lots of promises.
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Syklo and Impact Recycling to build a plastic recycling plant in Finland
Syklo Partners with Impact Recycling (UK) to Build a Plastic Recycling Plant Utilising Ground-Breaking Technology
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Ultrafast and selective chemical recycling of PLA to methyl lactate
Ultrafast and selective chemical recycling of PLA to methyl lactate by using MHMDS as simple catalysts
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What happens to used NL Textiles?
This study aims at empowering the government and value chain stakeholders to better contribute to the creation of a circular and fair value chain for post-consumer textiles.
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Aduro Clean Technologies Featured on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid
Aduro Clean Technologies Inc., a Canadian technology company using the power of chemistry to transform lower value feedstocks, like waste plastics, heavy bitumen, and renewable oils, into resources for the 21st century, is excited to announce its feature in the upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid documentary series.
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First of its kind micro recycling plant in US
Circular Plastics Microfactory result of partnership between ASU, city of Phoenix, Goodwill, Hustle PHX
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H&S completes set-up of chemical recycling plant for mattresses
Together with the Dutch recycling company RetourMatras, H&S has implemented a plant for the chemical recycling of discarded PU mattresses, enabling the recovery of high-quality recycled polyols.
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A Closed-Loop Recyclable Low-Density Polyethylene
Bayreuth scientists find a close-loop recycling process for one of the most widely used plastics
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Borealis chemical recycling project is put on hold
Borealis chemical recycling project is put on hold
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Kenyan Environmentalists warn against plastic recycling
Environmentalists in Kilifi warn against plastic recycling
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Overcoming Hurdles In Chemical Recycling (Reuters)
Overcoming Hurdles In Chemical Recycling For A More Sustainable Future
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World Bank issues bond to finance plastic recycling
Tackling the Plastics Pollution Crisis by Channeling Private Capital to Projects that Reduce Plastic Waste
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Chemical Recycling Europe and Zero Waste Europe disagree on chemical recycling
This statement serves as a detailed rebuttal to Chemical Recycling Europe’s (CRE) position paper on Zero Waste Europe’s ‘Leaky Loop “Recycling’ report.
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MCG update on Chemical recycling of Polycarbonates
Mitsubishi Chemical Group to Commence Full-fledged Verification Testing for the World’s First Commercialization of Polycarbonate Resin Chemical Recycling. Conducting testing for collecting polycarbonate resin from headlamps of end-of-life vehicles in collaboration with Tokio Marine & Nichido and ABT
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US Attorney Generals take position on Chemical Recycling
I didn’t see that one coming. If I understand this correctly, this is not good at all for chemical recycling.
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Infinity Recycling’s Circular Plastics Fund reaches €135 million
Infinity Recycling (“IRC”), an growth capital platform investing in circular economy solutions, is pleased to announce the fifth close of its Circular Plastics Fund I SCSp (“CPF”) in December 2023. With the onboarding of three new institutional Limited Partners, the fund has reached EUR 135 million in committed capital from a wide range of institutional investors based in Europe and…
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New technology to recycle clothes (Aarhus)
Scientists have come up with a technology to recycle used clothes rather than simply burning them
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EU recycling market faces ‘collapse’ after waste export ban
The readers of bioplasticsnews.com knew that already. The house of cards is going to collapse overnight, but the EU commission believes everything is fine in plastic waste land. The EU plastic waste policies have been a gigantic fiasco and the EU commission is in denial.
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M&Ms Canada makes bold statement about new packaging
M&Ms is taking us for imbeciles or they know something that we don’t.
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Reliance Industries Becomes First in India to Use Chemical Recycling for Circular Polymers
The new innovation is a testimony to the company’s commitment in reducing plastic waste and supporting Circular Economy in India
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Lummus invests in Resynergi chemical recycling
Investment in Resynergi will scale groundbreaking microwave pyrolysis technology that converts plastic waste to clean, high-quality, environmentally friendly reusable material
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US city imposes moratorium on chemical recycling plant
US city imposes pyrolysis moratorium to block chemical recycling project
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Sudpack acquires majority stake in Carboliq
Film Manufacturer SÜDPACK Acquires Majority Stake in CARBOLIQ Chemical Plastics Recycling
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LyondellBasell Advanced Recycling Project Selected For EU Innovation Fund Grant
LyondellBasell (LYB) has been selected to receive a €40 million grant from the European Union (EU) Innovation Fund.
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Novel Chemical Recycling System for Vinyl Polymers of Cyclic Styrene Derivatives
Researchers propose a new strategy for obtaining monomer precursors via depolymerization of cyclic α-substituted styrene-based vinyl polymers
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A State-by-State Assessment of US Packaging Recycling Rates
Today, Eunomia Research & Consulting and Ball Corporation released an updated “50 States of Recycling” report, building on the original, first-of-its-kind state-by-state comparable assessment of common packaging materials by using data on generation, recycling and disposal rates from across the United States.
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JEPLAN and Osaka Gas partner on PET chemical recycling
JEPLAN announces capital and business alliance with Osaka Gas
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Mastercard on Tom Szaky
Tom Szaky loves to talk trash. Like, literal garbage — Well, I have noticed that before
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University of Sydney funded for chemical recycling research
University to share in $40 million to combat plastic waste
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Plastic Packaging Use and Recycling Collection Rates Drop for the First Time
Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has launched its annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey, which estimates that year-on-year plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time.
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CRE rejects claims made in Zero Waste Europe report on pyrolysis
Chemical Recycling Europe (CRE) rejects claims made in Zero Waste Europe report on pyrolysis
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PUMA goes for chemical recycling
PUMA Scale-up Their Textile-to-textile Recycling Technology, Creating All Future Replica Football Kit Using RE:FIBRE Technology
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Trinseo builds chemical recycling plant in Italy
New Trinseo PMMA Depolymerization Plant Reimagines Plastics Value Chain With Sustainability In Mind
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Waste and Recycling Technology Association on chemical recycling
Sutco Managing Director and Chairman of the VDMA Waste and Recycling Technology Association Michael Ludden talks about chemical recycling of plastics in an industry interview.
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GreenDot strategy on chemical and mechanical recycling
The Future of Plastic Recycling: Mechanical and Chemical Pathways
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US Recycling directory ends
After 20 years of operation, a national online recycling directory for plastic bags and plastic films has been taken offline, six months after an ABC News investigation — The house of cards collapsed
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ACC publishes plastic end-of-life industry roadmap
Durable Plastics in Automobiles, Electronics, Buildings, Infrastructure and Medical Sectors Can and Should Be Part of a More Circular Economic Future
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Interview Plastic Energy CEO on BBC
Carlos Monreal, President & CEO of Plastic Energy on BBC World television
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Biomass pyrolysis factory to be built in Finland
Circa Signs Memorandum of Understanding With Vataset Teollisuus in Finland
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Cyclyx Welcomes Again Technologies to its Consortium
Cyclyx International, a consortium-based, post-use plastic innovation company with a mission to increase the recyclability of plastic from 10% to 90%, announces Again Technologies has joined the Cyclyx Consortium.
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Chemical Recycling Just Isn’t Feasible
From an energy perspective, breaking down plastics into their components to make the same plastics is fundamentally unsound.
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SABIC Plastic Energy advanced recycling virtual tour (video)
Take a virtual tour inside our advanced recycling plant with SABIC in Geleen, the Netherlands.
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ICIQ researchers describe a more sustainable process to recycle biobased polycarbonates
Researchers from ICIQ describe a circular process to recycle polycarbonates, a specific polymer often used in plastic applications, using less chemicals and user-friendly conditions
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LyondellBasell to build chemical recycling plant in Germany
LyondellBasell to Build Industrial-scale Advanced Recycling Plant in Germany
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Sweden opens state-of-the-art plant for sorting plastics for recycling
A new plastics sorting facility inaugurated in Sweden on Wednesday is being billed as the largest of its kind, and one designed to double the amount of plastic packaging materials being recycled in the Nordic country.
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ORNL scientists close the cycle on recycling mixed plastics
ORNL’s organocatalyst deconstructs mixed plastics at different temperatures, which facilitates recovering their individual monomers separately, in reusable form.
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APR and RecyClass Work to Align Design for Recycling Guidance
Continued efforts to drive harmonization of plastic packaging recyclability
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Will the fashion industry outgrow PET bottles if chemical recycling for textiles takes off?
As concerns about fast-fashion waste gain more attention, well-funded startups and longstanding chemical companies are starting to scale up the textile recycling market.
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NGOs file complaint against Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Danone for misleading recycling claims
Coca-Cola and Nestle accused of misleading eco claims
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EU imposes audit of plastic recyclers in Balgladesh
Recyclers would “not be able to export their products to the EU” without going through the audit, the EU said in a letter forwarded to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) of Bangladesh — What the EU should have done is inquire about what happens to the plastic waste exported from the EU
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