Non-profit organization the Florida Institute for Commercialization of Public Research has announced the finalization of a funding agreement with US Bioplastics. Gatoresin, a product from the Orlando-based US Bioplastics' is based on ...
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Arcadia Biosciences, an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a key ...
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Arcadia Biosciences, an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a key ...
Tags: Arcadia Biosciences, ESL, Food
Nissan has opened its second manufacturing facility in Thailand, which will produce the NP300 Navara, a new generation pickup truck. The 580,000m2 plant was built with an investment of THB3.7bn ($114.3m), and will support the region with ...
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The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) has welcomed the new waste and recycling targets adopted by the European Commission last week. The Commission announced a 70 percent recycling objective for steel, rising ...
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Lozi was founded in 2012 by Soroush Pourhashemi with a drive for making products that were simple and elegant. Every piece is created by carefully shaping and bending the wood, reducing the need for joints, creating seamless pieces that ...
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Germany-based steel giant ThyssenKrupp has announced that it is conducting modernization works at the converter No. 2 and the waste-heat boiler system in the Duisburg-Bruckhausen steelmaking plant. ThyssenKrupp stated that the ...
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Project MarineClean was launched in December 2011 in Eastern Europe as a three year project. It is nearing completion. The 1.1 million Euro undertaking aims to decrease marine litter, one of the major ecological threats, in four areas of ...
Recycling and preparing for reuse of packaging waste is to be increased to 80% (by weight) by 2030 with individual materials? required to recycle more. Paper, ferrous metal, aluminium and glass have been set a 90% target while plastic ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Paper Recycling
As part of the President's Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing updates to its air standards for new municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. These ...
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Early in 2013, a research group led by Biome Bioplastics was awarded a grant by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to investigate pulp and paper by-product, lignin, as a new source of organic chemicals for ...
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Paper-based packaging producer Smurfit Kappa has announced plans to reduce CO2 emissions per ton of paper produced by 25% by the year 2020 in its seventh annual Sustainable Development Report. The company's original target of a 20% ...
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Canada-based Cascades has introduced a new alternative to polycoated packaging known as 'Respak' for the food and food services industries. The recyclable and compostable Respak has been made by using 50% recycled fibres and is said to ...
The UK government has excluded small retailers from the proposed 5p carrier bag charge, which will come into force in England in October 2015. Government noted that its proposals for England only apply to plastic bags. The cross-party ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has expanded its wheat processing plant in Efremov, Russia, with an investment of $100m. As a result of the expansion, the plant can now process 500,000 tons of wheat a year - almost double its ...
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