BERLIN, June 11 (Reuters) - The European Parliament has agreed on new rules for reducing, reusing and recycling packaging in order to tackle the growing problem of waste and promote the circular economy. Under the new regulation, the amount of packaging waste in the EU is expected to decrease b...
May 29, 2011 - TECNO, the world's leading technology brand, introduces the innovative CAMON 30 Series LOEWE. Design Edition, featuring a unique back cover made from discarded coffee grounds. This groundbreaking material is the result of a collaboration between TECNO and LOEWE, a leading German premi...
Siemens and BASF recently announced a new partnership to debut Sirius 3RV2, a circuit breaker with components made of biomass balance method (BMB) plastics, which is used in factories and buildings to protect machines or cables in the event of faults such as short circuits and to prevent fires. ...
June 11, 2024 - U.S. Plastics Pact, Inc. has released its latest Strategic Initiative Roadmap 2.0, designed to help companies change the way they design, use and reuse packaging plastics. It focuses on practical measures to change the use of plastics.
Roadmap 2.0 goes into effect on January 1, 2026.&...
In terms of bio-based elastic fibers, collagen fibers are a material with great potential. Collagen is a natural polymer material with excellent elasticity and biocompatibility, which can be used in the manufacture of medical supplies, cosmetics, health care products and other fields. In recent year...
Fermbox Bio, a company specializing in the development and production of solutions using synthetic biology, has introduced a new product called Enzyme. Enzymes are special enzyme blends (called cocktails) that help break down waste plant material such as corn stalks and leaves into usable sugars.
The...
On June 6, President Joe Biden's administration announced a new initiative to emphasize alternatives to single-use plastics in government procurement, the first major federal contracting regulation to target plastic waste. The regulation will go into effect on July 8, 2024.
Products without any...
How to make ubiquitous plastics biodegradable, understanding the function of specific bacterial enzymes paves the way for biotech degradation of styrene.
Polystyrene (PS) is made from styrene monomer and is the most used plastic, e.g. for packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled ...
Plastics are the king of industrial materials, and even the biological field is dedicated to developing almost imaginable plant replicas. However, plastic is not the only industry all-rounder that bio-based producers should be looking at. Protein fibers nearly rival it in the range of applications a...
Since the 1950s, the global production of plastics has been increasing year by year, and more than 40% of plastics are used as disposable packaging, generating a large amount of plastic waste. Plastic waste that is not biodegradable is subjected to mechanical abrasion, photo-oxidation, etc., and deg...
