Foreword
Waste can provide a valuable
feedstock for a variety of industries, be it bioenergy or chemicals. Post-consumer
plastic waste is such an example and there are technologies which enable it to
be chemically recycled – converting it into useful raw materials, like various
monomers and oligomers which can be used for the chemical industry and perhaps
to create new plastics. Recycling Technologies is a Swindon-based company which
converts non-recyclable plastics into ‘Plaxx’, a crude oil equivalent suitable
for new plastic production. Renewable diesel company Neste and Mirova, a
sustainable investment manager, have jointly invested €10 million so that
Recycling Technologies can build this technology commercially in Scotland.
Neste also plans to use Plaxx, and from 2030, process 1 million tonnes of
plastic as a raw material for new products.
A recent article in Biomass Magazine discusses ..........
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- Biomass Heat Works! Lobbying
- Biomass conversions excluded from CfD
proposal
Markets
- Drax secures capacity payments but questions
over future for coal units
- Grain and oilseed markets
- Waste biorefinery for Gevo
- Corn ethanol increasing
Research & Development
- Grant to study Sorghum
- Business models for biomass sector
- Biochemical production improvements
Wood & Crop
- Cars made of kenaf
- Drying hemp has multiple considerations
- Forest and biomass power not
counterintuitive
- High standards at Drax
Other Feedstocks
- Drax to stop coal use ahead of deadline
- Chemical recycling receives investment
- Seaweed take away boxes
Events
Feedstock Prices