Cleantech's war on drugs and environmental innovations in ecommerce

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Today's newsletter is a packed one! It's filled with insights on bio #investments, #acquisitions, and #tech. Also, a brand new feature story on the war on drugs (waste) and Episode #11 of BMI TV with Adam Hall, Head of Sustainability at Internet Fusion Group.

Save the date! World Bio Markets returns, 8 & 9 June 2022 in Barcelona, to help drive the commercialisation of the sector. Keep your eyes peeled for more information next week.

Episode #11 of BMI TV: Eliminating carbon and plastic from ecommerce

A conversation with Adam Hall, Head of Sustainability at Internet Fusion Group, where we discuss plastic free packaging, global brand collaboration, how to launch market appropriate environmental innovations, and more

Feature Stories from our journalists and contributors

Cleantech’s War on Drugs

Pharmaceutical pollution is a silent scourge on health and the environment.

Companies usually incinerate drug waste and, although this is one of the few methods that destroys ecotoxic compounds, it poses its own environmental hazards.

Next-gen cleantech offers solutions.

>> Read the article

Best of the Newsroom

💰 HP Acquires Choose Packaging

Choose Packaging, the creator of a commercially-available, zero-plastic paper bottle, has been acquired by HP Inc. Through this acquisition, HP hopes to further its goal of disrupting the $10 billion fibre-based packaging market.

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🪵 Wier Selected For $1.7 Billion Advanced Biorefinery

USA BioEnergy has announced it will develop an advanced biorefinery in Bon Wier, Texas. The facility will convert 1 million green tonnes of wood waste into 34 million gallons of transportation fuel.

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♻️ TotalEnergies Will Supply Berry With Recycled Polymers for Packaging

French company TotalEnergies announces that it will supply Berry Global, the plastic packaging company, with polymers obtained through the advanced recycling of post-consumer plastic waste. These polymers will be used in the company’s food, beverage, and healthcare packaging.

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🦴 MIT Team Develops Bone-Strong Plant-Derived Composite

Researchers from MIT have developed a material made up of 60-90% of CNCs, which is the highest fraction of CNCs achieved in a composite to date. The material has been found to be stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys.

>> Read the article

📦 BASF Announces Adhesives That Don’t Interfere With Paper Recycling

German multinational company BASF, announced it has developed new label adhesives that can be used to coat paper labels and are designed not to interfere with the recycling of paperboard or cardboard transport boxes.

>> Read the article

Reads of the Week

#Regulation The Sustainable Mag dives deep into the historical, solid, and persistent link between fashion, sustainability and law.

#Tech Australian researchers have developed a way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries.

#Business Chevron has announced that it will acquire US-based Renewable Energy Group (REG)s.

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