Avantium takes a positive FID on the construction of its FDCA Flagship Plant
biobased chemical company aspects the construction of the Flagship Plant to be completed by the end of 2023 in Groningen (the Netherlands).
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Tag: bioplastics
WEF: The future of the plastics industry is green
Switzerland – Disruption of global supply chains and lockdowns revealed renewables as a better alternative to fossil fuels and accelerated the transition to a circular economy. According to World Economic Forum chairman Mikhail Karisalov in the coming years we will likely witness substantial changes in technological patterns globally. But as reliance on oil and gas […]
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Substitution of plastic with bioplastics creates other problems
To replace EU plastic packaging with bioplastic would require more than the equivalent of the total land area of Ireland. And about a fifth of the EU’s freshwater withdrawal. That concluded a multinational group of environmental scientists. They advice to reduce packaging demand of plastics instead. A new study: The Unintended Side Effects of Bioplastics: […]
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