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Coffee Waste from McDonald’s is Being Turned into Car Parts by Ford

Coffee Waste from McDonald’s Is Being Turned into Car Parts by Ford

5 Dec 2019

Sustainable Production of Fine Chemicals, Biofuels from Renewable Biomass

Researchers have given a new boost to a step toward a more sustainable bio-based economy, by successfully simplifying a process of converting waste materials into valuable chemicals.

27 Nov 2019

New Material Converts Toxic Pollutant into Useful Industrial Chemicals

Whenever fossil fuels are burnt, they release a harmful pollutant. Now, an international group of researchers has developed a new, sophisticated material that captures this pollutant from the exhaust gas stream and changes it into valuable industrial chemicals using just air and water.

25 Nov 2019

Bird Nest Inspires Engineers to Build New Bricks from Plastic Waste

A new brick made from domestic plastic waste has been proven to provide 10 times better insulation than traditional bricks made from clay.

25 Nov 2019

Pacific Northwest Recycling Project Releases Results from 60-Day Pilot

A collaborative group of government and packaging industry leaders, led by the Plastics Industry Association, have released the results from the first-of-its-kind Pacific Northwest Secondary Sorting Demonstration Project today.

23 Nov 2019

Fish Waste-Based Plastic for Single-Use Packaging Receives James Dyson Award

University of Sussex student Lucy Hughes has received the James Dyson Award for creating a unique plastic alternative made of fish waste.

23 Nov 2019

Eastman to Recycle Post-Consumer Carpet into New Materials

Eastman has reached an agreement to give new life to one of the most problematic waste materials in U.S. landfills. Post-consumer carpet will now be recycled through Eastman’s carbon renewal technology and converted into new materials to serve new and useful purposes.

From Eastman Chemical Company 23 Nov 2019

EuPC: Digital Platform to Monitor Uptake of Recycled Polymers Now Available in UK

EuPC has launched Monitoring Recyclates for Europe (MORE) the single, unified online tool to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products and is available for the use by converters in the United Kingdom (UK).

From European Plastics Converters 22 Nov 2019

Bioenergy STRONG Conference – Converting Australia’s Waste into Useable Energy

Bioenergy Australia’s annual Bioenergy STRONG conference will explore innovative approaches that Australia can adopt and expand on to convert agricultural, municipal, industrial and non-recyclable waste into valuable products such as electricity, liquid transport fuels for land, sea and air, renewable gas, renewable heat and high value products such as bio plastics and chemicals.

11 Nov 2019

NREL Produces Wind Turbine Blade Components Using Arkema’s Thermoplastic Resin

At its Composites Manufacturing Education and Technology (CoMET) Facility, NREL is producing wind turbine blade components with Arkema’s Elium liquid thermoplastic resin.

From Arkema 11 Nov 2019