Hydropolis United and Elkard to generate hydrogen from plastic waste
Poland – 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.
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Arcus supplies BASF pyrolysis oil from plastic waste
Germany – BASF SE has reached an agreement with German company ARCUS Greencycling Technologies to purchase pyrolysis oil made from mixed plastic waste.
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Breakthrough plastics waste to hydrogen trial launches in UK
United Kingdom – The University of Oxford has developed a ground-breaking technology known as “microwave catalysis,” which CarbonMeta Technologies is commercializing.
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EPFL scientists create new PET-like plastic made from biomass waste
Switzerland – Scientists at EPFL have created a novel, easily-produced plastic that resembles PET and is made from inedible plant parts.
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Lankhorst Ropes provides Heerema with slings made with fibre from plastic waste
The 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.
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UK to get new plant for converting waste plastic into hydrogen
United Kingdom – Peel NRE, Powerhouse Energy’s UK channel partner, has received planning approval in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, for a hydrogen facility.
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Hydrogen Utopia to build waste-plastic-to-hydrogen plant in Ireland
Ireland – 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.
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Rice University chemical technique to convert plastic waste into CO2 sorbent
United 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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New method for upcycling plastic to make recycling cost-effective
United Kingdom – A team of researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) have developed a new and simple method for upcycling plastic waste at room temperature.
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$13.4M funding for plastic waste recycling
United States – The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $13.4 million to seven projects for the research and development of novel recycling processes and technologies that will reduce plastic waste and the energy consumption and carbon emissions of single-use plastics at all stages of their lifecycle.
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