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Dutch SER advises biomass use for chems production
The Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) published this month its report: “Biomass in Balance, a sustainability framework for the high value application of bio-feedstocks” (in Dutch) which advises the Dutch government about biomass sustainability and giving a recommendation that biomass should be use more as bio-feedstock (chemicals and materials production) instead of bioenergy and fuel … Continue reading
TOTAL opens recycled plastic bike path
This is a very interesting and worthwhile news coverage given that I just came back from a road trip and encountered several roads and streets full of potholes. According to a recent press release from French oil company, TOTAL, the world’s first PlasticRoad bike path was recently opened in Zwolle, Overijssel in the Netherlands, which is made … Continue reading
Dutch Consortium invests towards sustainable chemistry
AkzoNobel, BASF, Shell, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Top Sector Chemistry, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Utrecht University, the Eindhoven University of Technology and Groningen University, have formed a consortium, known as the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC), which has announced plans to establish a national research center focused on … Continue reading