Sustainable packaging

The dirty little secret of plastic recycling

Carli Ghelfi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:21:02 -0400

Most plastic recycling plants use up to 100,000 gallons of water per day. ECO₂ Plastics says it uses zero and consumes carbon along the way.

Governments dole out cash for cleantech

David Ehrlich — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:09:39 -0400

Countries around the world are ponying up cash for clean technology, with a number of government-backed investments making news and a total of 17 deals spotted over the past week.

Wal-Mart & Microsoft's new cleantech deals

Dallas Kachan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:16:34 -0400

Two giants in their industries today signaled new initiatives to accelerate adoption of clean technologies.

Pratt commits $1B to expand recycling

David Ehrlich — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:59 -0400

Company plans three new recycled paper mills, four waste to energy plants and 30 materials recovery facilities.

Dow and Crystalsev to make bioplastic in Brazil

Dallas Kachan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:13:45 -0400

The two companies sign a memo of understanding to build the world's biggest rewewable plastic factory.

The week's hot solar deals

Dana Childs — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:07:17 -0400

Three solar co.'s landed substantial rounds, as did co.'s in bioplastic, batteries, biogas and other sectors not starting with B.

Braskem claims first green polyethylene

Dana Childs — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:30:16 -0400

Brazilian company says new ethanol-based plastic should be useful in everything from vehicles to packaging to personal care products.

Mexabolix licenses bioplastic tech from UMass Lowell

Dallas Kachan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:05:07 -0400

Company adding to its renewable plastic toolkit.

A corny thing to say

Dallas Kachan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:55:52 -0400

"We're not locked into corn."

— Telles chief brand officer Brian Igoe on feedstocks for company's new biodegradable plastic

Metabolix and ADM bioplastic fantastic

Dana Childs — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:52:27 -0400

Alcoa and Cereplast now have renewable plastic competition from Metabolix and ADM.