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Sustainable Feedstock for Plastic Production
Posted on March 30th, 2017 by Chris Walker in New Materials & Applications
We’ve looked before at the problems of plastic manufacture, and plastic waste in particular. In a report recently published, the European Commission (EC) has made the development of a roadmap for plastics a high priority. Continue reading “Sustainable Feedstock for Plastic Production” »
Can the Chemical Industry Transform the Way We Consume?
Posted on June 16th, 2016 by Christina Valimaki in Chemical R&D
For years now, there has been a large, sustained effort to try to reduce the amount of waste that is going into landfills and ending up in oceans around the world. But though there have been incremental improvements in the way we think about reuse and recycling, the fact is that our global consumption problem remains massive. Continue reading “Can the Chemical Industry Transform the Way We Consume?” »
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