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- Issue 01 | 2023
Demonstration tire made from 90 % sustainable material is approved for road use
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Akron, OH, USA) recently unveiled a demonstration tire comprised of 90 % sustainable materials. This demonstration tire has passed all applicable regulatory ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Audi uses chemically recycled material for the first time
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Audi (Ingolstadt, Germany) recently announced a first-time collaboration to help close the loop for mixed automotive plastic waste. - Issue 01 | 2023
Recycling technology for inexpensive, high-quality carbon fibre
Carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRP) are highly attractive for various industries in demanding application fields due to their unique balance of rigidity, mechanical strength, and lightweight – ... - Issue 06 | 2022
Adhesives: A problem and solution in a circular economy
Adhesives are compounds that are used to bond materials and hold them together once their surfaces come into contact. Their properties allow them to easily join materials of different natures. - Issue 03 | 2022
Designing for recycling of the future
The issue is familiar and pressing – currently, only 9 % of plastic waste is recycled globally, the rest ending up in landfills, in incinerators (thus generating pollution), or in the environment. ... - Issue 03 | 2022
Advanced recycling technologies developing at a fast pace
A dvanced recycling technologies are developing at a fast pace, with new players constantly appearing on the market, from start-ups to giants and everything in between – new plants are being built, ... - Issue 03 | 2022
Not all plastics are recycled equally
TotalEnergies Corbion has launched the world’s first commercially available chemically recycled bioplastics product. - Issue 03 | 2022
Innovative Recycling Solutions for Thermoset Plastics
PreScouter, a Chicago-based (USA) research intelligence company, has compiled a new Intelligence Brief that looks at the potential impact of recycling thermosets on reducing fossil-based plastic ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Car headliner from plastic waste and old tyres
Grupo Antolin, (Burgos, Spain), a global supplier of technological solutions for car interiors, presents the first headliner substrate produced by thermoforming a PU foam with materials made from ... - Issue 06 | 2021
Upcycling process for PAN from textile waste
Most synthetic fibres are made from fossil material sources. Since these are only available in finite quantities and their use is not always compatible with today’s environmental goals, it is ... - Issue 06 | 2021
Merging high-quality recycling with lowered emissions
Changing the way we think about plastics is a task facing the entire value chain, but the main focus still lies where a product’s life meets its smelly end’ – on waste management. While keeping an ... - Issue 02 | 2021
New world-scale plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facility
Eastman Chemical Company Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee recently announced the company's plans to build one of the world's largest plastic-to-plastic molecular ... - Issue 02 | 2021
The second life of organic residues
Sustainable compounds incorporating agro-industrial scraps - Issue 02 | 2021
From cotton rag to modern functional textiles
Every year, an estimated 25 million tonnes of cotton textiles are discarded around the world. In total, 100 million tonnes of textiles are thrown out. In Sweden barely 5 % is recycled, most of the ... - Issue 02 | 2021
The future of Japan’s waste
Global warming and plastic pollution are among the biggest challenges of our time. One strategy that tries to tackle both problems simultaneously falls into the areas of chemical recycling and ... - Issue 05 | 2020
Upcycling process for post-consumer PLA waste
Designed for performance and durability, plastics have become an indispensable part of everyday life. However, poor waste management has led to the accumulation of plastic in the environment. - Issue 05 | 2020
Large-scale commercial service for compostables for London and Brighton (UK)
As foodservice shifts to more disposables for hygiene, a new composting partnership offers a sustainable waste management solution for businesses in London, Brighton, and Sussex. - Issue 05 | 2020
Give bioplastic waste a new life
Gianeco S.r.l. is a plastic recycling company based in Piedmont, Italy and born to operate in the world circular economy. For years it has been dealing with the recycling of different polymers, ... - Issue 03 | 2020
What about recycling of PHA-polymers?
T he polyhydroxyalkanoate (or PHA) platform consists of products that meet the needs of all known end-of-life options. In this article we shall explain the details behind this statement and its ... - Issue 01 | 2020
Recycling plastic waste into chemicals
Sustainable technology company Anellotech (Pearl River, New York, USA) is significantly expanding its program with Plas-TCatTM, a new process technology aiming to convert a wide range of plastic ... - Issue 01 | 2020
Chemical recycling post-consumer plastic
Licella and BioLogiQ join forces to accelerate commercialization of Cat-HTR technology - Issue 01 | 2020
Strategic alliances to bio-cycle plastics
New enzyme engineering research center of international scale on plastic re cycling and biosynthesis - Issue 03 | 2013
Pelletizing and crystallizing of PLA – an analogy to PET?!
As PLA finds more and more applications it gives rise to the question of which are the most appropriate technologies for processing. Because of the low glass transition temperature of PLA the ... - Issue 03 | 2013
Recycling ‘hands on‘
The Perpetual Plastic Project with live, interactive demonstration - Issue 03 | 2013
Chemically recycling post-consumer PLA
A research project at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point over the past two years has instituted what is believed to be the first concerted effort in the USA to collect and recycle ... - Issue 03 | 2013
Better-than-virgin recycled PLA
Interfacial Solutions LLC (River Falls, Wisconsin, USA) has developed proprietary processing technology that converts scrap PLA, possessing inferior properties, into a recycled PLA resin with ... - Issue 03 | 2013
Supporting ecological advantages
A division of Starlinger & Co GmbH (Vienna, Austria), world market leader in the field of machinery and complete lines for woven plastic packaging production, Starlinger recycling technology ...