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More than 110 participants from 18 countries met last week in Nuremberg (and online) for two days to report on success stories and developments in the realm of sustainable plastics and the toys made from them.

Teijin Limited announced end of January that it has received an ISCC PLUS sustainable-product certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system for biomass-derived bisphenol A (BPA) polycarbonate (PC) resin products produced in Japan.

While materials, feedstocks, and EoL options are all important topics for the (bio)plastics industry, sustainable solutions also profit from related technical developments that help with everything from traceability to “just” reducing the electricity bill.

Today, digital product passports and mass balance bookkeeping software provider Circularise (The Hague, the Netherlands) announces that it secured €11 million in funding as part of its Series A round that will be used to advance its mission to bring a circular economy to industrial supply chains.

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corporation have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilizing bio-based hydrocarbons (Neste RE™) for the production of styrene monomer (i.e. bio-SM), and its mass balanced renewable plastics derivatives including acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (i.e. bio-ABS*). The bio-SM production in Japan and the renewable plastics production in Taiwan will mark the first of such production in each country, and they are planned to take place in the first half of 2023.

Brita (Taunusstein, Germany), INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have announced today that BRITA has selected a range of INEOS’ sustainable Terluran® ECO, Styrolution® PS ECO and NAS® ECO materials as materials of choice for its portfolio of water filter jugs.