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Once more, the IK initiative ERDE (Crop Plastics Recycling Germany) was able to significantly increase its collection volumes in 2020. At 543 fixed collection points and 1936 mobile collections, a total of 26,910 tons of agricultural films were collected and recycled. The amount corresponds to 51 percent of all silage and stretch film placed on the German market, this year’s report from the ERDE initiative to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) confirms.

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OneCircle announces new partnership with French collection partner ELISE Alsace.

OneCircle, producer of the KeyKeg and the UniKeg, is proud to present their latest partnership with collection partner ELISE Alsace; experts in collecting and recycling all types of waste. ELISE Alsace will be collecting used KeyKegs® throughout the Alsace region, which will later be recycled to fulfil their circular design and re-used into new KeyKegs®. The collaboration with ELISE Alsace further expands the established collection community within France.

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Carbon Engineering and BeZero Carbon join forces to offer a new retail option for customers seeking to address their carbon footprint through Direct Air Capture technology.

BeZero’s Carbon Rating Framework gives customers an additional tool to assess the quality of available solutions, with Direct Air Capture the only AAA+ top-rated solution.

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This partnership represents an initial investment and an invitation to stakeholders across the plastics recycling value chain to join forces with this catalytic capital strategy

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A joint life cycle assessment compared drying and aerating stored grains with using Kemin’s solution to treat them

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In line with our ambition to become the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world, Dow designed its roadmap to enable a first-phase reduction of 1.4 million metric tons of CO2 annually at Dow’s Terneuzen facility.

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Dow (NYSE: DOW) and Mengniu, China’s leading dairy company, today announced the successful commercialization of a collation shrink film made with Dow’s post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins in Mengniu’s product packaging. Amongst the first for the food and beverage industry in Asia Pacific, the newly formulated one-pellet resin is 100% recyclable and will be used in Mengniu’s secondary packaging for dairy products. This collaboration aligns with Dow’s sustainability commitment to stop the waste by enabling 1 million tons of plastic to be collected, reused, or recycled through its direct actions and partnerships by 2030.

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€3.5 million funding secured from Dutch Government, adds new collaboration partners in development of electrified-cracking technologies

Based on progress to date, companies are now evaluating construction of a multi-megawatt pilot plant

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Leading materials science company Dow (NYSE: Dow) and national sports agency Sport Singapore (SportSG) today announced the establishment of a permanent shoe waste collection ecosystem, which aims to recycle 170,000 pairs of used sports shoes per annum. This collaboration also involves partners such as B.T. Sports, Alba WH, Decathlon and Standard Chartered Bank.

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Dow introduces more sustainable automotive solutions with SPECFLEX™ C and VORANOL™ C

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