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1. Purple Bacteria Offer Path To More Sustainable Plastic 9/13/2024

   There's hardly a more ubiquitous substance than plastic. It's everywhere in the environment, from soil to air to water, and it's in our bodies

2. Dow Launches REVOLOOP Recycled Plastics Resins For Cable Jackets, Advancing Circularity In The Global Wire And Cable Industry With Post-Consumer Recycled Content 9/13/2024

   Dow announces the launch of a range of REVOLOOP Recycled Plastics Resins that incorporate post-consumer recycled (PCR) material into cable jacketing to help address customers’ varying needs and circularity goals across the globe

3. LyondellBasell Tackles End-Of-Life Challenges In Durable Goods By Investing In A New Recycling Center In Germany 9/11/2024

   LyondellBasell (LYB) is investing in a new closed-loop preparation center in Lich, Germany. This sophisticated recycling center is transforming plastic waste into high-quality feedstock for high-performance materials, supporting the circular economy and contributing to industry sustainability goals

4. Schneider Electric Collaborates With GR3N To Tackle Plastic Recycling Challenges And Drive Circularity In Chemical Sector 9/9/2024

   Schneider Electric, the world's most sustainable company and leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation has partnered with GR3N, the Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) chemical recycler to create the first open automation system for the advanced plastic recycling industry

5. Researchers Use 3D Imaging To Advance Microplastic Recycling 9/6/2024

   In a groundbreaking study, researchers Dr. William Anderson and Dr. Boxin Zhao, in collaboration with the National Research Council (NRC), have used 3D imaging technology to examine microplastics in unprecedented detail, a critical step toward improving plastic recycling methods

6. New Process Vaporizes Plastic Bags And Bottles, Yielding Gases To Make New, Recycled Plastics 9/5/2024

   A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics

7. Aduro Clean Technologies Files New Patent Application To Transform Waste Plastics And Renewable Oils Into High Value BTX Chemicals 9/4/2024

   Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (“Aduro” or the “Company”) (CSE: ACT) (OTCQX: ACTHD) (FSE: 9D5), a clean technology company using the power of chemistry to transform lower value feedstocks, including waste plastics, heavy bitumen, and renewable oils, into resources for the 21st century, today announced a new patent filing covering a new technology for transforming renewable oils and certain waste plastics into higher-value platform chemicals

8. Lucro Plastecycle's Deposit Return System In Baramati: A Successful Initiative In Plastic Waste Management 8/29/2024

   Lucro Plastecycle, a leader in plastic recycling and sustainable waste management, has successfully implemented a pioneering Deposit Return System (DRS) in Baramati, Maharashtra

9. LYB To Acquire APK AG Recycling Technology 8/22/2024

   LyondellBasell (LYB) today announced it entered into an agreement to acquire full ownership of APK AG in Merseburg, Germany

10. Neste Expands Chemical Recycling Logistics Infrastructure At Its Refinery In Porvoo, Finland 8/20/2024

    Neste is expanding its logistics infrastructure for liquefied recycled raw materials at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, including materials such as liquefied waste plastic and liquefied rubber tires