2:20 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
New plant
Spain: Repetco Innovations receives €30.8 million from the EIB to build a plastic delamination and recycling plant
Located in Albacete, the new plant will have a maximum input capacity of 150 000 tonnes of post-consumer food-grade mixed plastics per year and produce 54 000 tonnes of rPET pellets per year Repetco Innovations is planning to make an initial investment of €47 million and ...
2:32 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
rPET
€15 million for innovative plastic recycling factory Umincorp from Invest-NL and Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam
Invest-NL and Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam will jointly invest €15 million in Umincorp for the construction of a new rPET factory in Rotterdam. With this, Umincorp (“Urban Mining Corp”) is taking the next step in recycling plastics from household waste. InnovationQuarter is ...
3:22 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Research
Swedish study finds plastic-degrading enzymes correlate with pollution
The number of microbial enzymes with the ability to degrade plastic is growing, in correlation with local levels of plastic pollution. That is the finding of a new study from Chalmers that measured samples of environmental DNA from around the globe. The results illustrate the impact ...
2:40 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Recognition
Five additional Dow sites receive ISCC PLUS certification, driving global progress for circular plastic production
Dow announces that five of its largest manufacturing sites in Freeport, Texas (USA), Tarragona (Spain), Terneuzen (Netherlands), Boehlen (Germany) and Schkopau (Germany) have received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS recognition for their compliance ...