1:31 min
Chemical recycling
Grant
Avantium awarded €1.5 million EU grant to demonstrate the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into sustainable plastic materials
Avantium announces that it has been awarded a €1.5 million grant by the EU Horizon Europe programme for its participation in the research and development programme HICCUPS1. This programme aims to demonstrate the utilisation of CO2 as a feedstock for the production of polyesters. The ...
1:13 min
Recycled plastics
PET recycling
Biffa diverts 1,600 tonnes of waste plastic back into the circular economy, since opening PET Recovery Plant in Washington last year
The Group has pioneered new technology that targets, then captures, tiny flakes of recyclable material from contaminated waste.
2:30 min
PET materials
Collaboration
LanzaTech and Plastipak partner to produce world’s first PET resin made from waste carbon
LanzaTech Global and Plastipak Packaging announce they have successfully produced PPKNatura, the world’s first PET resin made from captured carbon emissions. The resin is suitable for food, personal care, and pharmaceutical packaging, as well as other non-packaging applications.
2:14 min
Chemical recycling
PET recycling
Eastman secures significant feedstock agreements for molecular recycling facility in France
Eastman announced it has secured a significant amount of feedstock needed for its planned molecular recycling facility in Port Jerome sur Seine, Normandy, France. With an investment of $1 billion, the planned facility will become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular ...
