Emirates Biotech has joined the CIRCLE consortium, a project funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme.
Chemical recycling
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Neste has commissioned a chemical recycling facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The investment amounts to approximately EUR 111 million and is intended to support the industrial scaling of chemical recycling.
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A new position paper by BZL and the nova-Institute sets out ten policy building blocks for a defossilised and more resilient European chemical industry. Published under the title “Recycling Becomes Feedstock for Europe – Let’s Dare More Autonomy”, the paper focuses on how waste management and the chemical sector could be better aligned to support a circular economy, renewable carbon supply and reduced dependence on fossil feedstock.
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BASF and Essity joined forces together with the Technical University of Wien to revolutionize recycling of absorbent hygiene products (AHP).
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Chemical (advanced) recycling can extend circularity to plastic streams that are hard to recycle mechanically. The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology Umsicht has compiled an interactive map of Europe’s chemical recycling activities, covering facilities, technologies, capacities, and project status across the continent. For context, the European steam cracker sites and capacities are also listed.
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The second half of 2025 could see renewed investment in pyrolysis oil after the EU set out its approach to mass-balance accounting in early July. It has proposed a fuel-exempt model. A consultation on the proposals ended on 19 August. The Commission is currently conducting a review before presenting a final draft to its technical, with the aim of adopting the proposals under an implementing decision in autumn 2025. It is currently unclear the extent of any changes to the SUPD proposals resulting from the consultation
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Chemical recyclingPlasticsVehicles
BASF, Porsche and BEST complete pilot project on chemical recycling
BASF, Porsche and BEST have completed a pilot project demonstrating how gasification can recycle waste streams from end-of-life vehicles. Even complex shredder residues can be turned into feedstocks for new plastic components.
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The EU Commission has published proposals to allow mass balance for chemical recycling using a fuel-exempt accounting approach under the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD).
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K 2025 sees Erema launch the Agglorema generation of machines, a new recycling system specially developed for processing heavily contaminated post-consumer waste.
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The Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2025 takes place on November 19-20 in Cologne, Germany, and online. Researchers and industry professionals are invited to share their latest achievements by submitting abstracts by 31 July 2025 and present work to a global audience of recycling experts.
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Stuttgart, June 2025 – The University of Utrecht has chosen a Coperion STS 25 Mc11 twin screw extruder for a chemical plastics recycling research project. A research group headed by Assistant Professor Dr. Ina Vollmer will undertake comprehensive investigations of the mechanical-chemical conversion of mixed plastic waste using catalysts. Thanks to its intensive mixing effect and efficient energy intake, the Coperion STS twin screw extruder will assume a central function in this promising and relatively unexplored area.
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