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Newly Developed System can Turn Sludge from Wastewater Treatment Plants into Mineral Salts and Biogas

EPFL spin-off TreaTech has created a system that can convert sludge from wastewater treatment plants into biogas and mineral salts, which, for instance, could be used in fertilizer.

14 May 2019

Key Global Players Team-Up with Carbios & L’Oréal to Boost PET Recyclability

On behalf of the Consortium, Carbios and L’Oréal have announced a major partnership with Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe.

13 May 2019

GreenMantra & INEOS Styrolution Collaborate to Advance Polystyrene Chemical Recycling

GreenMantra and INEOS Styrolution have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA), which will align GreenMantra’s patented technology and INEOS Styrolution’s manufacturing infrastructure to convert waste polystyrene into chemical monomer building blocks that further advance the polystyrene circular economy by replacing a portion of virgin monomer feed in INEOS Styrolution’s polymerization process.

From INEOS Styrolution Group GmbH 13 May 2019

EuPC’s New Digital Platform Monitors Recycled Polymers’ Performance Evolution

MORE, the single, unified digital platform to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, is available to be used by converters since the 25th of April 2019.

From European Plastics Converters 13 May 2019

Amcor Unveils AmLite Ultra Recyclable, New Recyclable High-Barrier Packaging

Amcor has launched AmLite Ultra Recyclable, its first packaging product made from the company’s revolutionary, more sustainable high-barrier polyolefin film that the company announced last year.

From Amcor 13 May 2019

Scientists Strategize Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Waste Plastic

From campaigns against microplastics to news of the great Pacific garbage patch, public awareness is growing about the outsized effect plastic has on the world’s oceans. However, its effect on the air is far less obvious.

13 May 2019

Pentair Delivers Great-Tasting, Filtered Drinking Water to Target Field for the 2019 Baseball Season

Pentair, a global water treatment company, takes pride in announcing that it is now providing great-tasting, filtered drinking water to Target Field for the 2019 baseball season.

2 May 2019

Making Australia a Recycling Nation

Australia is missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity and thousands of jobs as governments and business allow a mountain of recyclable materials to be stockpiled or dumped, the Boomerang Alliance of 48 environment groups said today.

29 Apr 2019

Researchers Synthesize Clean, Cost-Effective Ammonia by SWAP Process

Ammonia—a colorless gas used for manufacturing fertilizers—can be produced by a new method that is much easier, cleaner, and cheaper compared to the existing principal method.

25 Apr 2019