Across The Wire

  1. Braskem And Vartega Launch New Carbon Fiber Recycling Program For 3D Filament 5/19/2021

    Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, announces today its expanded partnership with Vartega Inc. ("Vartega"), a leading recycler of advanced materials including carbon fiber reinforced plastics, for a new 3D Printing Filament Recycling Program

  2. Abt Electronics Unveils 30,000-Square-Foot Onsite Recycling Center 5/11/2021

    Known for its expansive green initiatives, 85-year-old Abt Electronics, the largest independently-owned, single-location retailer of electronics, appliances, and home goods in the country debuts a larger recycling center, becoming more efficient in its waste management and expanding its commitment to sustainability

  3. Alfa Laval Partners With EasyMining To Develop Circular Solutions That Can Produce Value From Waste 5/11/2021

    Alfa Laval - a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has signed a partner agreement with EasyMining, an innovation company in the Swedish Ragn-Sells Group, to develop new processes and technologies to extract commercially valuable products from waste materials and enable circular solutions

  4. Kinava Launches The Green-Waste-To-Biofuel Business With Hybrid Hydrothermal Carbonization Technology 5/9/2021

    Currently, the international communities are participating in Paris Agreement to fight against the climate change and pollution issues, as well as the depletion of the natural resources. In addition, the volume of food and household wastes is increasing at an explosive rate due to skyrocketing deliveries of household necessities in the context of social distancing and non-contact culture of Covid-19

  5. LyondellBasell Starts Commercial Production Of Polymers Using Raw Material Derived From Plastic Waste 5/6/2021

    LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced another step towards its ambition to advance the circular economy by making virgin quality polymers from raw materials derived from plastic waste at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Produced by the thermal conversion of plastic waste, this raw material is converted into ethylene and propylene in the LyondellBasell production facilities, and then processed into polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) in the downstream units for plastics production.

  6. Government Of Canada Invests In Reducing Plastic Waste And Supporting The Transition Of A Circular Economy For Plastics 4/15/2021

    Plastic litter is polluting our rivers, lakes and oceans, harming the wildlife that call those places home, and generating micro and macroplastics in the water we use

  7. American Packaging Corporation Joins Circular Great Lakes To Actively Combat Plastic Waste And Pollution 4/9/2021

    American Packaging Corporation (APC) today announced it has joined Circular Great Lakes as a corporate activation partner, a regional initiative led by the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR)

  8. Nowi And Industry Partners Announce Renewed Environmental Focus To Reduce Battery Waste 4/8/2021

    Nowi, Toshiba, Changhong, TW Electronics and other electronics conglomerates have reiterated their environmental responsibility and identified energy harvesting as a credible solution to meaningfully reduce the electronic waste footprint of the world

  9. Ways2H Shareholder Japan Blue Energy Launches Tokyo Renewable Hydrogen Production Facility 3/30/2021

    Renewable hydrogen systems manufacturer Ways2H Inc. and its shareholder and technical partner Japan Blue Energy Co. announced today the completion of a Tokyo facility that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen fuel for fuel cell mobility and power generation

  10. Renewable Natural Gas Produced By Anaergia From Diverted Landfill Waste Now Flowing Through SoCalGas System 3/18/2021

    Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and Anaergia, Inc. (Anaergia) announced today that renewable natural gas (RNG) produced from household waste is now flowing into SoCalGas' pipeline system from the Rialto Bioenergy Facility (Facility)