Clean technology
-
Phosphorus from municipal sewage
.
AVA-CO2 recently announced that its cleanphos pilot plant in Karlsruhe, Germany, came online early this month. The cleanphos process enables efficient and cost-effective recovery of phosphorus from sewage sludge compared to existing phosphorus recovery methods. The pilot unit will be…
-
Get to know the New Plastics Economy
.
While the blog is still in the bioplastics mood, I’ve been hearing more and more about circular economy when it comes to the plastics industry and I came across this interesting study as well as this new three-year initiative called…
-
Air Products Will Exit Energy-from-Waste Business
.
Air Products recently announced that it will exit its Energy-from-Waste (EfW) business. As a result, the EfW business segment will be accounted for as a discontinued operation effective in the Company’s second fiscal quarter. Air Products expects to record a pre-tax charge…
-
Abengoa files for insolvency protection
.
It might not be a good 2016 for Spain’s largest renewable energy company, Abengoa SA, as it teeters on bankruptcy following a huge stock price fall by more than 50% when the company announced on November 25 that it failed…
-
Spotlight: Imperial College London Bio activities
.
The blog had the pleasure of speaking with Imperial College London’s Professor Richard Ian Kitney (Chairman of Institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology as well as Co-director EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation) at the recent SynBioBeta conference in…
-
World’s first Bio LPG facility in 2016
.
Finland-based Neste breaks ground on what it claims to be the world’s first Bio LPG facility located at Neste’s renewable product refinery in Rotterdam. The EUR 60 million facility will start production of Bio LPG in the end of 2016….
-
P&G initiates use of recycled packaged bottles
.
Procter & Gamble through its Fabric Care business plans to overhaul its packaging by using up to 50% ‘Post Consumer Recyclate’ (recycled plastic) for 230 million bottles of its flagship brands such as Ariel, Dash, Lenor and Unstoppables. First P&G…