
A Circular Economy for Plastics
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
Using chemical recycling to tackle the problem of plastics waste
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Van...
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
The potential of algae to recover valuable resources from waste could transform the traditional w...
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
KBR has signed an agreement with Mura Technology under which KBR will be an exclusive licencing p...
AN inexpensive, non-toxic method has been developed to recover silver and palladium from industri...
VEOLIA has announced that it has expanded its wood recycling and processing capacity by 50,000 t/...
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
LYONDELLBASELL and SUEZ have jointly acquired plastics recycling company TIVACO, which will becom...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced £22.5m (US$29.9m) in funding for five new circula...
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has invested £20m (US$26m) in four proposed plastic recycling p...
THE European Commission has unveiled its new chemicals strategy which aims to make chemicals prod...
SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages a...
BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed ...
ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to ...
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
INEOS Styrolution has reported the final results of research project ResolVe, showing that waste ...
THE UK’s Recycling Association has called for Government to support investment in UK paper and ca...
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
SPECIALIST plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies has signed an agreement w...
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical suppli...
RESEARCHERS at Singapore’s National University of Singapore (NUS), have achieved a major technolo...
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which co...
ECOSURETY, a UK producer responsibility compliance scheme, has launched a £1m (US$1.32m) innovati...
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Vietnamese industrial zone developer DEEP C Industrial Zones ha...
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lit...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has partnered with BASF in a pilot research project to trial plastic recy...
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
A PARTNERSHIP between Nordic clean energy company Fortum, and Finnish speciality recycling compan...
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic...
THE European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identi...
THE Coca-Cola Company has announced an agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies, a start...
THE UK government has announced the launch of a £60m (US$76m) innovation fund to accelerate the d...
THE thermal oxide reprocessing plant (Thorp) at Sellafield, UK, has ceased reprocessing spent nuc...
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealin...
THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US...
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
CRISP packets, chocolate wrappers, and blister packets for pills are all extremely difficult to r...
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
NESTE, a producer of renewable diesel, is developing ways to turn liquified plastic waste into a ...
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a polic...
NEW technology has been developed that will convert palm oil waste into building materials and bi...
AN EXPERIMENT to study a plastic-eating bacterium accidentally created a mutant enzyme that degra...
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s larges...
A FACILITY that will convert non-recyclable wastes into biofuels and chemicals for industrial use...
THE UK’S recycling industry says it may not be able to cope with an increase in plastic waste, as...
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
ADDING plastic bottles to concrete could lead not only to lower carbon emissions, but improve str...
NUTRIENTS, energy and water will be safely recovered from the faeces and urine of up to 1,000 peo...
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potat...
RESEARCHERS have piloted a process to turn a waste stream from olive oil manufacture into biofuel...
A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel...
STREETS worldwide could be made greener and cooler by incorporating waste cigarette butts into as...
A SURGE in the construction of facilities that burn residual waste is a direct threat to the UK a...
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
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