A new European project, SOWISE+ (Solid Organic Waste Into Sustainable End-products), has officially launched in Italy with the goal of demonstrating the first multipurpose biorefinery of its kind for converting urban biowaste and post-consumer absorbent hygiene products into advanced bio-based materials.

A Spanish research consortium has launched ENDFOULING, a circular economy project that converts organic waste generated in ports into bio-based additives designed to prevent marine biofouling—a major source of fuel consumption and emissions in global shipping.

Dubai, UAE – The countdown has begun for ArabPlast 2027, the Middle East's largest and most influential exhibition for the plastics, petrochemicals, packaging, polymers, recycling, rubber and chemicals industries.

Technip Energies,Alterra and Neste have announced the commercial launch of Nerea™, a new industrial modular solution designed to accelerate the deployment of chemical recycling projects for plastic waste.

A new European flagship project is set to demonstrate, at industrial scale, how an underutilized side stream from the potato processing industry can become a valuable source of sustainable chemicals.