“Biodegradable” is a misleading term for plastic substitutes that require heat to break down or industrial compositing conditions

26-May-2023

A widely used compostable plastic persists unchanged in marine environments for at least 14 months, according to a new study in PLOS ONEby Sarah-Jeanne Royer andcolleagues from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at theUniversity of California, San Diego.The study highlights the distinction ...

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Planned construction of a demonstration production plant receives 5 million euros in funding

23-May-2023

The bioeconomy startup traceless has developed a nature-based, sustainable alternative to plastic. The compostable biomaterial traceless® is based on plant residues of industrial grain processing. To implement the innovative technology for the first time on an industrial scale, the company is ...

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Talented 12: Chemical & Engineering News announces its 2023 rising stars in chemistry

23-May-2023

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), an independent news outlet of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has unveiled its annual “Talented 12” list. The list highlights early-career researchers in the chemical sciences who are fearlessly tackling difficult global problems. These intrepid innovators ...

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Car2Car project develops technologies for an optimized recycling of end-of-life vehicles

27-Apr-2023

In the Car2Car project, recyclers and scientists addresses the challenges of closing material loops. The focus lies on increasing the quality of the secondary raw materials from end-of-life vehicles by means of innovative dismantling and automated, accurate detection and processing solutions. The ...

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Environmentally compatible and climate-friendly recycling for high-quality "post-consumer" recyclates

25-Apr-2023

What doesn't smell good is hard to recycle. This simple rule also applies to the growing volume of plastic waste worldwide. One way to recycle it in an environmentally compatible and climate-friendly manner as high-quality post-consumer recyclates is through improved sorting and reprocessing. ...

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17-Apr-2023

They’ve been called “dream” plastics: polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. Already the basis of afledgling industry, they’re a class of polymers naturally created by living microorganisms, or synthetically produced from biorenewable feedstocks. They’re biodegradable in the ambient environment, ...

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Scientists increase efficiency: Start-up company in preparation

13-Apr-2023

One of the most widely used plastics in the world is polyethylene terephthalate, or PET for short. It is everywhere in our daily lives in the form of reusable PET drinks bottles. At the end of the lifecycle of a product containing PET, the environmentally friendly reuse of the PET components ...

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Interface Polymers' technology simplifies processing and recycling of plastics

21-Mar-2023

Evonik has invested in the British company Interface Polymers Ltd. This company’s Polarfin® additives simplify the processing of plastics such as mixtures with polyethylene or polypropylene. At the same time, its technology makes it possible to recycle such plastics, thereby solving one of the ...

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BluCon Biotech's technology has the potential to be a disruptive game changer in the world's plastics market

16-Mar-2023

BluCon Biotech, a German biotech company, and LG Chem,a Korean chemical company, have entered into an investment agreement to scale up and commercialize BluCon Biotech’s proprietary technology to supplement LG Chem´s bio-economy portfolio BluCon Biotech’s technology has the potential to be a ...

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13-Mar-2023

PET, the plastic used to make bottles, for example, is ubiquitous in our natural environment. In a joint study, scientists from Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) investigated the negative effects that tiny plastic PET particles can have on the metabolism ...

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