Illinois researchers convert food waste into jet fuel, boosting circular economy

31-Oct-2025 - Airplane travel is more popular than ever, and our desire for fast transportation means jet fuel has become a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered a novel way to address that problem—by converting food waste ...

Consortium develops evolutionary concept for recycling of end-of-life polyurethane mattress foams

Ecomaison, Covestro, Secondly and Federal Eco Foam launch research project

27-May-2024 - Material efficiency is the key objective when creating a new material cycle for flexible polyurethane (PU) foam from used mattresses. The French company Ecomaison has dedicated itself to collecting and recycling used furniture and has been working with Covestro for a few years to utilize its ...

Innovative solutions related to Sustainable Chemistry and Waste

Finalists of the third ISC3 Innovation Challenge selected

12-Aug-2022 - The voting period of the third ISC3 Innovation Challenge that called for innovations in the field of Sustainable Chemistry and Waste: Prevention, Valorisation & Management just ended. The international jury of experts chose its 10 finalists from a large number of top-notch applications from five ...

Resourcify raises another €5 million to expand its recycling platform

"Resourcify makes it easier for businesses across all industries to monitor and manage their waste and, in the process, get us closer to a net-zero waste future"

23-Feb-2022 - Resourcify, Europe’s digital platform for waste management and recycling, announced the successful closing of its latest €5m funding round. This brings the total raised by the startup to over €9 million. Resourcify’s recycling platform enables companies to digitize and optimize their recycling ...

LyondellBasell takes leadership role in global effort to end plastic waste

LyondellBasell, Proctor & Gamble and Veolia to lead global alliance

17-Jan-2019 - LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world announced CEO Bob Patel has joined with Proctor & Gamble CEO David Taylor and Veolia CEO Antoine Frérot in leading the newly announced global Alliance to End Plastic Waste(AEPW). The AEPW is the first-ever ...

Neste aiming to use waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and plastics

20-Jul-2018 - Neste is exploring ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. The aim of the development project is to proceed to industrial scale trial during 2019. The company’s target is to process annually more than one million tons of waste plastic by ...

Initial funding to kick off waste-to-chemistry project in Rotterdam

19-Feb-2018 - A consortium of companies comprising Air Liquide, AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam hassigned a project development agreement covering initial investments in an advanced waste-to-chemistry facility in Rotterdam. The facility will be the first of its kind in Europe ...

The circular economy – resource-efficient and digital

Can the digital transformation pave the way for resource-efficient materials cycles?

25-Aug-2017 - As yet, only around 14 per cent of the raw materials used in German industry are derived from recycling processes. But how can this proportion be increased and waste disposed of in a way that is safer and more environmentally friendly? A study by the German Federal Environment Ministry takes the ...

Fuel from sewage is the future - and it's closer than you think

04-Nov-2016 - It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory . The technology, hydrothermal liquefaction, mimics the ...

AkzoNobel and partners to explore use of waste as chemicals feedstock

14-Nov-2014 - AkzoNobel is part of a major Dutch partnership working with Canada's Enerkem to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production and the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities. The collaboration features a number of industry and semi-governmental partners looking to ...