plastic waste

Corporate giants can now offset plastic footprint with plastic credits

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Africa Carbon & Commodities (ACC), an organisation driving sustainable solutions for environmental challenges in Africa, today announced the Deekali Plastic Project in Senegal has become the first plastic credit project in Africa to meet the requirements for registration…

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Five sustainable plastics research projects granted £6 million in funding

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Five new projects, each of will be led by UK universities and span three years, have been announced. Each project is aimed at supporting a more sustainable plastics system and helping the UK move towards a circular plastics…

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Prevented Ocean Plastic’s new mission: 25 by 2025

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Among the commitments and statements made last week on World Oceans Day, one in particular stood out. Bantam Materials UK, the supplier of Prevented Ocean Plastic in Europe, announced a particularly ambitious new mission, namely the opening of…

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Global Chemical Companies Announce Hub for Plastic Waste Processing Research

Iranpolymer/ Baspar Seven members of the Low Carbon Emissions Technology initiative (LCET), BASF, Covestro, Dow, Mitsubishi Chemical, ABIC, Solvay and Lyondell Basell, signed an agreement with the independent research organization TNO, establishing a research hub in the Netherlands. Activities at…

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Bausano, Wintech partner on recycling solution

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  A collaboration between Bausano, the Italy-based manufacturer and supplier of customised extrusion lines for plastics processing, and Wintech, a Chinese plastics machinery company producing, amongst other products, rotary injection moulding machines, has resulted in the development of a…

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Trending now: Plastic is the new black

It was fashion’s biggest night and plastics stole the show thanks to actress Emma Watson’s pantsuit made from recycled plastic bottles.  Designer Calvin Klein and Livia Firth, environmental activist and founder of Eco Age Ltd., collaborated together on the black…

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