Carnival and Wärtsilä to reduce marine plastic use
Finland – Wärtsilä and Carnival Corporation collaborated on a pilot project to cut back on the use of plastic in marine operations.
Continue ReadingFinland – Wärtsilä and Carnival Corporation collaborated on a pilot project to cut back on the use of plastic in marine operations.
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom – The first of its kind in Scotland, a highly visible city center plastic recycling hub was built by designers from Robert Gordon University’s Gray’s School of Art.
Continue ReadingPoland – Hydropolis United has inked an agreement with Elkard sp z.o.o. to build a plastic waste processing plant that will generate hydrogen, power, and heat.
Continue ReadingGermany – BASF SE has reached an agreement with German company ARCUS Greencycling Technologies to purchase pyrolysis oil made from mixed plastic waste.
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom – The University of Oxford has developed a ground-breaking technology known as “microwave catalysis,” which CarbonMeta Technologies is commercializing.
Continue ReadingSwitzerland – Scientists at EPFL have created a novel, easily-produced plastic that resembles PET and is made from inedible plant parts.
Continue ReadingThe Netherlands – Lankhorst Ropes is supplying Heerema Marine Contractors with LankoForce HL slings made with Dyneema SK78 fibre made from post-consumer plastic waste for the first time in the heavy lift industry.
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom – Peel NRE, Powerhouse Energy’s UK channel partner, has received planning approval in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, for a hydrogen facility.
Continue ReadingIreland – Hydrogen Utopia has reached an agreement with Trifol Resources Limited (TRL) in Ireland, which it expects to lead to the company’s first full-scale waste plastic to hydrogen facility in Europe.
Continue ReadingUnited States – A Rice University lab has discovered a chemical technique for converting waste plastic into a useful CO2 sorbent for industry.
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