Browsing: circular

Indonesia’s oil palm industry faces a strategic dilemma that increasingly extends beyond production targets and into climate commitments, land governance, and global market access. According to Prof. Hariyadi of IPB University’s Faculty of Agriculture, raising productivity on existing plantations rather than expanding cultivated land will determine whether the sector can meet economic and environmental expectations simultaneously.

Tata Motors and Castrol India have launched a pilot programme in Karnataka aimed at building a structured ecosystem for collection, channelisation, and recycling of used engine oil through authorised service networks.

A pilot project in Elche, Spain is testing whether agricultural and forestry waste can become a scalable feedstock for renewable hydrogen through thermochemical conversion.

A recent agreement between the University of Sharjah and Lootah BioFuels aims to strengthen cooperation in renewable energy, scientific research, and circular economy development.

Poland’s transition from a rapidly transforming economy into a more sustainable and technology driven system was highlighted in Hanoi as a potential reference point for countries such as Vietnam seeking to accelerate their own green development pathways.

Europe’s upcoming recycled content requirements could force a fundamental restructuring of automotive material flows, with Volkswagen warning that the industry will need to process significantly more end-of-life vehicles to meet future obligations.

Three cities in Mindanao have been selected to receive technical assistance and feasibility study support aimed at creating inclusive circular economy public private partnerships (PPPs).

Powerhouse Energy Group has joined the Horizon Europe Innovation Action project JUST-CIRCLE, a multinational initiative designed to examine how circular business models can be developed, measured, and scaled across different sectors.

The global chemical industry is increasingly shifting from pilot-scale circularity initiatives toward securing commercial volumes of recycled feedstocks, with BASF and Texas-based Encina strengthening their partnership around chemically recycled benzene production.

As demand for electric vehicles, renewable energy infrastructure, battery storage, advanced electronics, and artificial intelligence systems accelerates, critical minerals are increasingly becoming the foundation upon which decarbonization strategies depend.