This collaboration aims to divert end-of-life #plastic from incineration by developing sorting & treatment infrastructure & to supply 80,000 tons of feedstock to FreepointEcoSystems's advanced #recycling facility to be located in Belgium: tinyurl.com/r2vmkhxf #PlasticFreeJuly

Gathering accurate data on #emissions from suppliers poses difficulties due to varying reporting standards & data availability. The low rate of #Scope3 emissions reporting makes it difficult to calculate the full #carbonfootprint of a specific product: tinyurl.com/5au24b7j

The ecosystem currently relies on secondary datasets that result in inaccuracies in fee calculations & misplaced #Investments in #recycling & reuse systems, making it harder for brands to see the fruits of innovation in new #packaging designs: tinyurl.com/2t9ev4e8 SAP Forbes

.Polystyvert recently closed a first tranche of Series B #funding for over $16 million. It lays the ground for the industrial-scale commercialization of its #plastic #recycling tech already proven at the pilot & demo unit scale: tinyurl.com/5n8fywb3 #circulareconomy

Market players in #Asia are increasingly becoming more interested in using pyrolysis oil as fuel. This was one of the critical insights gained by ICIS after attending conferences in S. Korea & China: tinyurl.com/yc7w62t4 #plastic #recycling #podcast #PlasticFreeJuly

A national bottle deposit fee could make a dramatic difference in reducing #plastic #waste, increasing the #recycling rate of PET in the U.S. from 24% to 82%, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers report: tinyurl.com/2s54c8zt #circulareconomy

The first Lummus advanced #recycling plant, which will be located in Hungary, will have a processing capacity of 40,000 tpa of mixed #waste #plastic & will produce circular building blocks which MOL Group will process in their petrochemical facility: tinyurl.com/3h62w6wy

REFENCE™ innovative range of recycled polymers for food contact #Packaging has been produced using NEWER™ tech, which is developed under a co-development agreement between eni Versalis & Forever Plast: tinyurl.com/frc394tp #recycling #circulareconomy

5 questions for Eric Appelman, CRO at Aduro sustainableplastics.com/news/5-questio… Aduro Clean Technologies

After positive preliminary tech evaluations by TotalEnergies, Aduro Clean Technologies is now entering an R&D collaboration phase, which will focus on more diverse range of #waste #plastic (with higher concentrations of polyolefins, PUR, metals, etc.): tinyurl.com/3k7t8r2b #recycling

Advanced nylon #recycling #startup, Syntetica raises €4.2M. Their depolymerization tech breaks the chemical bonds binding nylon & other fibers together in blended #Textile in a no-pressure, low-temp chemical process: tinyurl.com/yc6vufu9 via Tech.eu #circulareconomy

.PUMA has scaled up its textile-to-textile #recycling innovation RE:FIBRE, creating millions of replica #football jerseys with a minimum of 75% recycled #Textile #waste & other waste material: tinyurl.com/y7f57hjv #circulareconomy

The collaboration, led by the NextGen Consortium, makes reusable cups the default option in more than 30 national & local restaurants across the City of Petaluma, California: tinyurl.com/rbyrhhxj Starbucks Coca-Cola PepsiCo Closed Loop Partners #sustainable #Packaging #reuse

The scanner is equipped with a near-infrared & a VIS sensor. Using this combination, the device not only detects the material type, such as #Plastic like PP, PET, HDPE or paper, but also the color of the #packaging: tinyurl.com/3ff639kf TOMRA Recycling Henkel #recycle

The performance of the #German #Chemical industry was better than expected in the 1st half of the year & is set to improve further in the 2nd half; A 3.5% increase in production & a 1.5% boost in sales for the year is expected: tinyurl.com/598xpehh VCI C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)

.WPI has been awarded $331,592 in state funding to help develop a groundbreaking process for converting mixed #plastic #waste into valuable #chemicals. Will allow WPI to purchase equipment for its hydrothermal catalytic conversion of plastics: tinyurl.com/4m6t2d9t #recycling

Under its circular eco-system brand Wenew, Braskem ♻️ is now supplying its circular, ISCC+ mass balance certified, chemically recycled PP based on post-consumer #Plastic #waste to Georg Utz AG for food contact approved #Packaging: tinyurl.com/bdf6ecmc #circulareconomy #recycle

Our 5th annual #ChemicalRecycling seminar is back! Uncover the latest challenges & opportunities facing the plastics industry & this advanced #recycling method. ♻️ 📅 17 Oct 2024 📍 Online 🤝 sponsored by Environment Exchange Grab your early-bird tickets today➡️bpf.co.uk/events/chemica…

#Chemistry & #plastics are key “inputs” for a host of #emissions-reducing applications, including #solar & wind power; fuel efficient automobiles & #ElectricVehicles, high-performance building materials, etc.: tinyurl.com/yc78tv6k American Chemistry #decarbonisation

The #Biden-#Harris Administration has announced a new goal to phase out federal procurement of single-use #Plastic from food service operations, events, & #Packaging by 2027, & from all federal operations by 2035: tinyurl.com/4ex597ce #plasticpollution