Green Chemicals Blog
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Strong growth for bioplastics in 2020
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The renewable chemicals and bioplastics markets have been surprisingly strong and very active in terms of investments this year amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. At the 4-day 15th European Bioplastics (EUBP) Conference that virtually took place earlier this month, the…
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The Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute has partnered with the organization Beyond Benign to establish a new initiative ‘The Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community (GCTLC)‘ to support green chemistry education. For more than 20 years, educators from…
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Opportunities in fiber-based food packaging
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As my colleague from Fisher International, Pirita Huotari, pointed out on her recent blog post, ‘Is Fiber-Based Food Packaging a New Golden Opportunity for Specialty Papers?’, several major food corporations like McDonalds are making the commitment to transition to 100%…
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Calling Startups to join the Carbon-to-Value Initiative
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Urban Future Lab, New Yor City’s leading cleantech incubator has partnered with Greentown Labs and Fraunhofer USA to launch ‘Carbon to Value (C2V)’ initiative, a multi-year multi-stakeholder program aiming a building the carbon tech ecosystem. Application is now open for…
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Enerkem and partners to build waste-based methanol plant in Canada
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It has been a while since the blog has an update on how Enerkem has been doing. This month, Enerkem, with a group of strategic partners, that include major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen…
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More R&D Activities Open Up Lignin’s Feedstock Potential
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Lignin is expected to play a significant role as a new chemical feedstock particularly in the formation of supramolecular materials and aromatic chemicals. Lignin is a complex plant-derived macromolecule found in the cell walls of almost all dry plants. It…
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KFC Canada Testing Compostable Cutlery
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO OUR US BLOG FOLLOWERS! (and belated to our Canadian subscribers!) In honor of chickens who are being spared from today’s national US holiday (sorry turkeys…), I came across this interesting news from KFC Canada that it will…