studies and reports
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Advanced Biofuels Capacity update
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I am still in the “capacity news” mode so I’ll post this press release from BIO last month covering their recent Roundtable discussion regarding capacity progress from several advanced biofuels companies. BIO and its US biofuels members have been fighting hard this year for Congress to preserve the current Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) status mandated…
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European Bioplastic publishes guidelines
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This is good news for marketers of bioplastic products who want to ease consumer confusion on what a bioplastic means. The trade group European Bioplastics has just launched its “Environmental Communications Guide for Bioplastics” that was developed by an international ad hoc working group within the last six months with the goal to help marketing…
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Bioplastics in baseball games
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The blog first mentioned BASF’s partnership with US major league baseball team Seattle Mariners in April this year, where fans were able to receive compost kit compliments of BASF, Ecosafe (the maker of compostable bags that uses BASF’s Ecovio biodegradable resins) and Seattle Public Utilities. The compostable offerings now expanded to snack packaging where the…
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Green cleaning products merger
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Too bad I won’t be able to attend the 1st ICIS European Surfactants conference this month as Belgium-based Ecover is one of the presenter in the conference. But I’m betting that there will be questions coming up about the company’s recent acquisition of US green cleaning product company Method. Oh well, I guess I will…
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Protected: Soy oil voted best coatings feedstock
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.