Browsing: circular

Borealis has announced a EUR 49 million investment at its Burghausen site in Germany to expand commercial-scale production of Borstar Nextension polypropylene.

With EU recycled content mandates approaching, the Netherlands is accelerating investment into plastics recycling pathways that extend beyond PET, where regulatory approval remains limited.

PuriFire Energy has obtained funding from the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) for its WoodVALOR project, aiming to transform contaminated waste wood into higher-value products using advanced bio-processing technologies.

Davao City is confronting a mounting waste crisis as daily collections near 800 tons, raising urgent questions about the sustainability of its sanitary landfill.

Global demand for plastics continues to rise even as regulatory pressure, brand commitments, and climate targets tighten around emissions, waste, and feedstock sourcing. For companies operating at the scale of LyondellBasell, one of the world’s largest producers of polyolefins and chemicals, the challenge is no longer limited to cost efficiency or capacity utilization.

Coal-fired power plants in Vietnam generate more than 25 million tonnes of ash and slag annually, a volume that for years strained landfills and raised environmental risks. What has shifted the debate is not a reduction in coal use but a sharp increase in reuse.

The world’s oceans absorb roughly a quarter of annual anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, according to long established climate assessments, making them a central stabilizing force in the global climate system.

Europe’s plastics recycling industry is contracting at a pace not previously recorded, and Brussels is preparing to intervene.

The United Arab Emirates has moved beyond pilot programs in the circular economy, embedding it into a broader economic restructuring agenda that now includes 22 approved and implemented policies spanning waste, materials, infrastructure, transport, and industrial design.

Vietnam is increasingly positioning the circular economy at the center of its sustainable development strategy, as highlighted during the thematic session “Promoting green transition and developing the circular economy to realize high growth and sustainable development goals” at the Vietnam Economic Forum 2025.