Industry News

Thailand has announced that it will ban all plastic imports by 2025. The ban, which has been in discussions since 2020, will occur in three phases.  Only 14 manufacturers in Thailand’s free trade zone ...

Origin Materials, Inc., a leading carbon-negative materials enterprise and Avantium N.V., a pioneering technology business in renewable chemistry, have joined forces to speed up the large-scale produc ...

PA Consulting and PulPac have launched The Bottle Collective, which aims to reduce single-use plastic bottles in various sectors by industrializing a high-speed, low-cost process for creating fibre-ba ...

Gucci and its parent company Kering have unveiled the ‘Circular Hub’, a luxury platform based in Italy, designed to transition the region’s fashion industry to circular operations. Based in Tuscany, t ...

For the third time, a comprehensive award will be presented for the best renewable materials that can be produced either from biomass, directly via CO2 utilisation, or recycling. The award ceremony wi ...

For almost 50 years, the iconic Rubik’s Cube, invented by Ernő Rubik in the ’70s, has been a staple of puzzling fun. However, this classic toy was not so friendly to the environment – until now. Spin ...

New research released on 6 February revealed that despite awareness and more stringent regulations around the world to curb plastic pollution, global production of single-use plastic had risen by 6 mi ...

Clariter, a leading cleantech company, and TotalEnergies Fluids, a division of TotalEnergies, have unveiled a sustainable ultra-pure solvent derived from plastic waste. These solvents are typically us ...

ACI Plastics, in partnership with Luxembourg-based Ravago, has launched a new state-of-the-art recycling facility in Flint, Michigan.  Officials with the Michigan Dept. of Environment, Great lakes, an ...

Epson has collaborated with the renowned Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato and his YUIMA NAKAZATO brand at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Spring – Summer 2023, in order to unveil captivating  ...