Tag: Switzerland
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Sulzer opens Swiss hub to boost biopolymer innovation (FREE)
Read Sulzer opens Swiss hub to boost biopolymer innovation
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Bcomp Closes CHF 36M (US $40M) Series C Funding
Bcomp Closes CHF 36M (US $40M) Series C Funding
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Scientists Find Microbes That Can Break Down Plastic in the Cold
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL have discovered microbes that degrade plastic at cool temperatures. This opens up new perspectives for recycling certain types of plastic. Most known microbes require at least 30°C for their decomposition work.
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Producing PHA from Wastewater
Wastewater treatment plants can do more than just wastewater treatment. In the future, they should also recover resources. One approach that researchers at Eawag are pursuing is the conversion of the organic carbon contained in wastewater into bioplastics with the help of bacteria
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Swiss Investment Banker on Bioplastics
Article on bioplastics written by Swiss investment banker — Remember that a banker, especially an investment one, looks at the world through the “profit” and “greed” prism. Everything tends to be reduced to the question: can we make profit out of it!
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Worn Again Technologies to Build Chemical Recycling Plant in Switzerland
Worn Again Technologies announces plans to build a new textile recycling demo plant in Winterthur Switzerland
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Swiss Pact for Waste Collection
Working together for a Switzerland-wide recycling system: closing cycles for plastic packaging and beverage cartons
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Swiss Invent New Plastic Recycling Method
Could the Swiss be good as something else than Banking?
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Underestimation of Nanoplastics
The danger of nanoplastics according to Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)
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Green Cards for Swiss Banks
What better way to market your green credentials directly to the public than through environmentally-sound credit cards?
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Better Catalysts for a Sustainable Bioeconomy
Swiss Researchers want to make so-called zeolites more efficient. Today, these compounds are already indispensable additives in the chemical industry and have been used as catalysts in oil refineries since the 1960s. Now the researchers advocate paying more attention to the classic zeolites. These, they assert, would even have the potential to make a bioeconomy…
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Swiss Heavyweight Bioplastic Startup
Promising alternatives to plastic in the pipeline of a Swiss startup
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The Rise of a Lignin Bioplastics Champion
I think this is the birth of a lignin bioplastics champion. They may be the first one to make it!
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Yokogawa Sets Bio Business Innovation Centre in Switzerland
Yokogawa Establishes Yokogawa Innovation Switzerland as Center for Bio Business.
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Converting Plastic Into Gold
It might look like any old 18-carat nugget of gold, but it hides a secret. Produced in the lab, this shiny disc weighs just a fraction of what it should, and has other interesting properties to boot.
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New Fines for Single Use Plastic in Geneva
From 1 January 2020, single use plastic products will be banned in the city of Geneva. Offenders will risk fines of at least CHF 100.
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Will Switzerland Disrupt the PEF Market?
Researchers at the ETH Zurich University have improved the method to produce PEF drastically.
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Ecochem Basel
Ecochem Basel: CEO’s and global leaders from the world’s elite brands and chemical companies gather in the Swiss city two months ahead of the Davos summit.
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