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31. Byzen Digital Announces LOI With Clean-Seas To Create World’s Leading Plastic Recycling Company 3/27/2020

    Byzen Digital Inc. (OTC PINK: BYZN) today announced it has entered into a letter of intent to merge with Clean-Seas, a Delaware corporation, to address the world’s growing waste plastic crisis.

32. Inhance Technologies Launches Commercial Process To Eliminate PFAS From Fluoropolymers 3/24/2020

    Inhance Technologies, a leading international provider of polymer materials science solutions offering the world more responsible and sustainable choices, announced today it has commercially launched a process to eliminate perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), from fluoropolymer resins.

33. Clariant And Floreon Announce Collaboration To Expand High-Performance Biopolymer Applications To Additional Markets 3/18/2020

    Clariant’s Additives business and Floreon-Transforming Packaging Limited announce an exciting new collaboration to further extend the performance properties and market potential of biopolymers, whilst preserving their environmental benefits

34. Aptar Announces The World’s First Packaging For Cosmetics Using Certified Recycled Plastic 3/12/2020

    Aptar Beauty + Home, a global leader in packaging and dispensing systems for the cosmetics industry, continues to focus its efforts on sustainable product development.

35. Borealis Producing Certified Renewable Polypropylene At Own Facilities In Belgium 3/10/2020

    Borealis has started to produce polypropylene (PP) based on Neste-produced renewable feedstock in its production facilities in Kallo and Beringen, Belgium. This marks the first time that Borealis has replaced fossil fuel-based feedstock in its large-scale commercial production of PP

36. Neste And Mirova Back Recycling Technologies To Accelerate Transition To Circular Economy For Plastic 3/9/2020

    Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and Mirova, a pioneer impact investor in the natural capital space and an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, today announce a combined EUR 10 million investment into Recycling Technologies Ltd (‘Recycling Technologies’), a specialist plastic recycling technology provider

37. ‘Deceptively Simple’ Process Could Boost Plastics Recycling 3/9/2020

    Plastics are a victim of their own success, so inexpensive, easy to use and versatile that the world is awash in plastic waste.

38. LyondellBasell And Bora Sign Definitive Agreements To Form Chinese Joint Venture 3/5/2020

    LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, today announced it has signed definitive agreements to expand in China through a 50:50 joint venture with the Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group (Bora)

39. BASF’s Plastic Additives Help To Improve The Durability Of Highways In India 3/3/2020

    BASF’s light stabilizers from the Chimassorb range have been used by M/s Megaplast India Pvt Ltd (Megaplast), a leading polyethylene products manufacturer in India, to produce nonwoven geotextile used in the construction of national highways.

40. Bubble Tech Blows Microplastic Problem Out Of The Water 2/27/2020

    An innovative Australian technology that uses bubbles to remove contaminants from water offers a solution to an emerging global pollution crisis – microplastics.