The U.S. plastics recycling and reclamation market faces three major challenges in 2025: trade uncertainty, new capacity additions, and weak consumption. And, Trump's tariff policy is likely to hit the U.S. recycled plastics ecosystem. In addition, Coca-Cola's downward revision of its packaging sust...
On December 19, 2024, the European Commission formally adopted a regulation banning the use of bisphenol A (BPA) and other bisphenol substances harmful to the reproductive and endocrine systems in food contact materials.
BPA is a common chemical raw material widely used in the production of pla...
Recently, Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) released its 2023-2024 Impact Report, and among the report's key metrics is that 50 percent of the plastic packaging its partners put on the market in 2023 will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable, an increase of 7 percent from 2022. The Ottawa, Ontario-...
On December 18, the EU's Circular Biobased Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) published its annual work plan for 2025, outlining a new call for project proposals. The program allocates a budget of €165 million to support projects in the European circular bio-based industrial sector covering the 13 th...
In the first half of December 2024, the polylactic acid (PLA) market in Germany showed resilience with prices remaining stable despite a challenging economic environment. The country's manufacturing sector experienced a notable decline in November, particularly in terms of new factory orders and pro...
Initially inspired by the potential of mycelium as an alternative material, Mexican brothers AlexisGómez-Ortigoza and Axel Gómez-Ortigoza Aguirre decided to start their own business.
The brothers founded Polybion (from the Greek and Latin words meaning an entity capable of developing multiple t...
Honda has adopted Mitsubishi Chemical Group's (MCG Group) bio-based engineering plastic, DURABIO™, for the tinted body and windshield of its X-ADV motorcycle, which will be sold from December 12, 2024 in Japan.
In addition to providing the toughness and other properties required for motorcycle ...
On December 18, U.S. Plastics Pact (U.S. Plastics Pact) released its 2023-2024 Impact Report, which highlights significant advances in the circular economy for plastics, while calling for greater collaboration across industries, governments, and consumers, and emphasizing the importance of unifying ...
On December 6, Starbucks launched new biodegradable plant-based straws in its stores in Japan, and starting in March 2025, they will be available in Starbucks stores across Japan. This is another important move in support of the company's environmental commitment to actively utilize resources and it...
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Emirates Biotech has selected Sulzer of Switzerland as the technology provider for its upcoming polylactic acid (PLA) production plant in the UAE.
The plant, with a total investment of about $800 million (RMB 5.8 billion), will be built in two phases, each with a capacity...
