August 2020
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The US Plastics Pact launched
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Led by the Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the collaborative U.S. Plastics Pact was launched as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network. The U.S. Plastics Pact is an ambitious initiative to unify diverse public-private…
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Australian company sells compostable cling wrap online
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I first saw this article from an Australian website, Broadstreet.com, about a small company called Great Wrap which is selling online a compostable cling wrap that is reportedly certified by DIN Certco in Germany. The cling wraps sell for AUS$8…
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Not all carbon emissions are equal?
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I’ve been following the Biogenic CO2 Coalition for the past year which was formed by several agricultural trade groups to persuade the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to refrain from regulating CO2 emissions from the use of annual crops the…
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VIDEO: Phillips 66 to build world’s largest Renewable Fuels Plant
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Biorefineries for producing renewable diesel and associated hydrocarbons have been popping up like mushrooms all over the world and it is more interesting when oil companies such as Total in Italy and now Phillips 66 in the USA are converting…
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Novvi starts renewable base oil plant
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Novvi LLC and Chevron both announced the successful start-up of its Deer Park, TX plant, where it is manufacturing and marketing 100% renewable base oils for the lubricants industry, and 100% renewable process oils for polymer, adhesives, and personal care…
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PNNL offers Special Exploratory License Agreement
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From time to time, I covered several R&D news coming from the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). One of these was the partnership between LanzaTech and PNNL on their ethanol-to-fuel technology R&D, which I believed, started…
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VIDEO: Green Chlor-Alkali Plant
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I am not that familiar with the chlor-alkali industry aside from the information that it uses electrochemical processing which is getting to be popular as well in its potential to produce renewable carbon-based chemicals (example is Avantium’s Volta technology). Electrochemical…