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DataBeyond, a China-based company specialised in AI and optoelectronic sorting equipment, announced it is partnering with New Ruibang Fiber Technology, a producer of recycled hollow polyester staple fibre (PSF). The companies are building eight PET bottle sorting lines, each with a capacity of 60,000 tonnes annually, to produce a total of 300,000 tonnes/year of recycled […]
Alterra Energy LLC is ready to bring its technology to North America through a licensing agreement with a subsidiary of Freepoint Eco-Systems Holdings LLC that will provide for the construction of a recycling facility for waste plastics on the Gulf Coast with a capacity of 192,000 metric tons per year. Alterra has developed a liquefaction technology […]
Xampla, a cleantech company from Cambridge, has raised $7m (£5.5m) in funding to advance its plant-based, biodegradable material that aims to replace plastic. The startup’s mission is to eliminate the need for plastic by replacing it with ‘Morro’, a proprietary material that the company claims can break down quickly and fully without releasing any harmful […]
Polymateria, a prominent scale-up based at Imperial College London’s White City Campus, has achieved a significant milestone in its mission to combat global plastic pollution. The company recently announced a successful £20 million Series B funding round. This investment is earmarked for scaling up its revolutionary technology that renders plastics biodegradable, addressing a critical environmental […]
LyondellBasell has launched a new recycled resin made from recovered maritime plastics. The new resin is the fruit of a collaboration with an unnamed ‘renowned’ German original equipment manufacturer and a plastic mechanical recycler, according to a statement by the Netherlands-based chemical company. Called CirculenRecover PPC TRC 2179N, the PP copolymer recyclate can be used […]
Plastic garbage and its accumulation in nature has recently become a major environmental concern. While plastic pollution in the oceans is undeniably a concern, the presence of plastics in soils all over the world is also known to cause serious environmental and health problems. Plastics fragment into tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs) in the […]
Scarcity of resources, environmental pollution, and global warming, call to rethink new ways to work towards a sustainable economy. The solution is a Circular Economy, in which waste is used as a valuable source of raw materials. As far as plastics are concerned, the EU has already set the recycling targets: plastic waste should be […]
Cyclyx International – a joint venture among Agilyx, ExxonMobil, and LyondellBasell – has reached the final investment milestone for its first Cyclyx Circularity Center (CCC) in Houston, Texas. The facility is designed to accept and process plastics that are currently going to U.S. landfills for use in a range of recycling technologies. “This milestone is evidence of the real progress […]