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US Federal Agencies Release Framework for Advancing the Bioeconomy
The federal Biomass Research and Development (BR&D) Board recently launched a multi-agency strategy to accelerate innovative technologies that harness the nation’s biomass resources for affordable biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. The Bioeconomy Initiative: Implementation Framework was developed by the B&RD Board – an interagency collaborative which is co-chaired by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the … Continue reading
Neste aims to use waste plastic feedstock for fuels and plastics
Neste says it is exploring ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. The aim of the development project is to proceed to industrial scale trial during 2019. The company’s target is to process annually more than one million tons of waste plastic by 2030. In Europe, some 27 … Continue reading
Bioeconomy Career Map
Another year has passed and maybe you’re now looking for a career change that can satisfy your thirst to contribute in some small way to make the world and our society a little better? I received this press release and thought it very interesting for those looking at the bioenergy sector. I just came back … Continue reading
REPORT: European Commission Bio-based products recommended policies
Hello blog readers. Unfortunately, I am still unable to blog as much this month as I am currently enjoying my first long vacation this year in Aruba (after all the health issues, I think I do deserve this one). I just want to wish everybody happy holidays and if I don’t post again this year, … Continue reading
Biofuture Platform launched
Ministers and high-level representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Paraguay, Philippines, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Uruguay gathered together on November 16, 2017, in Bonn, Germany, and have decided to join efforts in a new government-led, multi-stakeholder Biofuture Platform designed to promote international coordination on advanced … Continue reading
BASF participates in circular economy initiatives
I just finished wrapping up five presentations (two that I personally worked on) about bio-based chemicals and bioeconomy for the incoming Nova Institute Bio-Materials conference next week in Cologne, Germany,(which my colleague, Philippa Davies will give the presentation) and for the Asia Petrochemicals Industry Conference (APIC) which will be held on 18-19 in Sapporo, Japan. This … Continue reading
Protected: New Bioeconomy reports
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Protected: Survey: Growth and Challenges in the EU Bio-based Industry
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Report: US Federal Activities on the Bioeconomy
After the recent post on EU Bioeconomy report, now let’s look at what the US government has been doing so far when it comes to growing its own bioeconomy. Here is a report stating some of the current steps that federal agencies are taking to support and develop the Bioeconomy vision in the US. This … Continue reading
EU Bioeconomy 2013 Turnover Report
Here is an interesting recent report published by Nova Institute on behalf of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). According to the report below, 2013 sales from the European Bioeconomy (meaning parts of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea to produce food, materials and energy) had a total of EUR 2.1 trillion. … Continue reading