The panel discussion centered around how the biomethane market in the UK will evolve. The panel included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. They discussed topics such as the build time needed to develop biomethane projects and the number of biomethane plants currently operating in the UK market.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on biomethane production and connecting to the gas grid. The panel was chaired by Stuart Easterbrook from National Grid and included representatives from Malmberg, Bronkhorst High-Tech BV, Addleshaw Goddard, Future Biogas, and Imspex Diagnostics. Jon Harris from Malmberg presented on the company's 150 years of experience supplying biogas upgrading technology to nearly 100 biomethane plants globally. He discussed challenges such as project timing, technology selection, sustainability criteria, and biogas contamination control that affect connecting biomethane production to the gas grid.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on developing bioresources through anaerobic digestion. The panel included experts from organizations involved in anaerobic digestion, including the National Non-Food Crops Centre, Centre for Process Innovation, AMEC, ADAS UK, and Northumbria Water. The panel discussed challenges in commercializing new anaerobic digestion technologies and overcoming the "valley of death" between research and commercialization. One example project presented was the SeaGas project at the Centre for Process Innovation to develop gas from seaweed through anaerobic digestion.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on operational performance and innovation in biogas processes. The panel was chaired by Gary Jones from Langage Farm and included Alistair James Ward from the Institute for iNGENIØRVIDENSKA, Chris Brown from Uponor, Stirling Paatz from New Generation Biogas, and Oliver Vigano from SCHMACK Biogas GmbH. Chris Brown's presentation focused on Uponor's pipe solutions for heating biogas plants, including fermenters, digesters, and distributing waste heat to other applications. Flexible pre-insulated piping systems were highlighted for their benefits of being lightweight, robust, and having very low thermal loss.
Norsk Ombruk AS is a Norwegian remanufacturing company that focuses on extending the life of household electrical goods to drive the circular economy. They remanufacture used products to like-new condition, saving resources and preventing waste while providing affordable alternatives for customers. Their remanufacturing process is supported by robust quality control systems and an experienced workforce. By collaborating with brands and retailers, Norsk Ombruk AS aims to maximize the benefits of remanufacturing for the economy, environment and society.
Presentation provided by Darren Fry, Walker Environmental Group during the pecha kucha sesssion at the ONEIA Environment and Cleantech Business & Policy Forum on May 17, 2016.
Oliver Vigano from Schmack Biogas presented on hybrid anaerobic digestion. Hybrid AD combines dry and wet AD lines to utilize different waste streams based on their dry matter content and compensate for seasonal fluctuations. The dry AD line processes biowaste and organic waste while the wet line handles materials like maize and grass silage. This allows all waste to be used while generating a consistent amount of biogas year-round. Advantages include synergies in technology and pre-treatment, offsetting seasonal variations, and economic gas upgrading and grid connection. A case study of a German plant processes over 40,000 tons of various waste annually into 3 million cubic meters of biomethane, equivalent to 30 million kWh for
Nypro Radius Replenish V8 Edit Matt Notes PagesMatthew_Dudas
The document discusses the Replenish Project, which aims to create more sustainable packaging through a reusable and recyclable pod-based packaging system. The system seeks to reduce packaging waste and costs for consumers and companies. It details the challenges of designing a pod that can squeeze fluid from a concentrate pod into a bottle while allowing the pod to reseal without leaks. It also discusses selecting sustainable materials and manufacturing the system at low-cost and high-speed to commercialize the technology for various products like cleaners. The conclusion invites partners to help realize a future of multi-use reusable packaging.
The panel discussion centered around how the biomethane market in the UK will evolve. The panel included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. They discussed topics such as the build time needed to develop biomethane projects and the number of biomethane plants currently operating in the UK market.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on biomethane production and connecting to the gas grid. The panel was chaired by Stuart Easterbrook from National Grid and included representatives from Malmberg, Bronkhorst High-Tech BV, Addleshaw Goddard, Future Biogas, and Imspex Diagnostics. Jon Harris from Malmberg presented on the company's 150 years of experience supplying biogas upgrading technology to nearly 100 biomethane plants globally. He discussed challenges such as project timing, technology selection, sustainability criteria, and biogas contamination control that affect connecting biomethane production to the gas grid.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on developing bioresources through anaerobic digestion. The panel included experts from organizations involved in anaerobic digestion, including the National Non-Food Crops Centre, Centre for Process Innovation, AMEC, ADAS UK, and Northumbria Water. The panel discussed challenges in commercializing new anaerobic digestion technologies and overcoming the "valley of death" between research and commercialization. One example project presented was the SeaGas project at the Centre for Process Innovation to develop gas from seaweed through anaerobic digestion.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on operational performance and innovation in biogas processes. The panel was chaired by Gary Jones from Langage Farm and included Alistair James Ward from the Institute for iNGENIØRVIDENSKA, Chris Brown from Uponor, Stirling Paatz from New Generation Biogas, and Oliver Vigano from SCHMACK Biogas GmbH. Chris Brown's presentation focused on Uponor's pipe solutions for heating biogas plants, including fermenters, digesters, and distributing waste heat to other applications. Flexible pre-insulated piping systems were highlighted for their benefits of being lightweight, robust, and having very low thermal loss.
Norsk Ombruk AS is a Norwegian remanufacturing company that focuses on extending the life of household electrical goods to drive the circular economy. They remanufacture used products to like-new condition, saving resources and preventing waste while providing affordable alternatives for customers. Their remanufacturing process is supported by robust quality control systems and an experienced workforce. By collaborating with brands and retailers, Norsk Ombruk AS aims to maximize the benefits of remanufacturing for the economy, environment and society.
Presentation provided by Darren Fry, Walker Environmental Group during the pecha kucha sesssion at the ONEIA Environment and Cleantech Business & Policy Forum on May 17, 2016.
Oliver Vigano from Schmack Biogas presented on hybrid anaerobic digestion. Hybrid AD combines dry and wet AD lines to utilize different waste streams based on their dry matter content and compensate for seasonal fluctuations. The dry AD line processes biowaste and organic waste while the wet line handles materials like maize and grass silage. This allows all waste to be used while generating a consistent amount of biogas year-round. Advantages include synergies in technology and pre-treatment, offsetting seasonal variations, and economic gas upgrading and grid connection. A case study of a German plant processes over 40,000 tons of various waste annually into 3 million cubic meters of biomethane, equivalent to 30 million kWh for
Nypro Radius Replenish V8 Edit Matt Notes PagesMatthew_Dudas
The document discusses the Replenish Project, which aims to create more sustainable packaging through a reusable and recyclable pod-based packaging system. The system seeks to reduce packaging waste and costs for consumers and companies. It details the challenges of designing a pod that can squeeze fluid from a concentrate pod into a bottle while allowing the pod to reseal without leaks. It also discusses selecting sustainable materials and manufacturing the system at low-cost and high-speed to commercialize the technology for various products like cleaners. The conclusion invites partners to help realize a future of multi-use reusable packaging.
The document discusses IKEA's new circular approach which aims to prolong the life of products, use resources more smartly, and close the materials cycle. The key aspects of this approach are developing ranges with circular design in mind, meeting customers' needs for help with problems at home, and creating a circular supply chain where materials are recycled or reused.
This document summarizes Dr. Donna Rawlinson's presentation on Northumbrian Water's innovative approach to sludge treatment. It discusses how Northumbrian Water uses advanced anaerobic digestion (AAD) to treat sludge, producing renewable energy and reducing costs. Their AAD systems at two sites produce enough electricity to power 30,000 homes annually. Northumbrian Water is also expanding AAD by adding food waste digestion and connecting the biogas to a gas grid to further reduce fossil fuel usage and increase renewable energy production.
The document summarizes connecting biomethane production sites to the gas grid in the UK. It discusses Future Biogas' journey connecting sites since 2011, including the first commercial grid injection site in 2013. It provides a checklist for producers to connect, and notes potential show stoppers like lack of network capacity. The presentation discusses the first high pressure private pipeline connection in North Norfolk in collaboration with National Grid, and ongoing challenges around connection costs, propane addition for blending, regulatory burdens, and grid capacity issues. It concludes that while progress has been made, more is still needed to support the pace of industry growth.
The World Circular Economy Forum presents the world’s best circular economy solutions and gathers together the most recognised experts and decision makers in the field. The event is organised by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. Read more: www.wcef2019.com
The document outlines IKEA's business case for transitioning to a circular economy model. It discusses designing products for circularity using recycled materials from IKEA stores, like using shrink wrap waste in water bottles. It also outlines initiatives to prolong product life through repair, renting, sharing, take-back programs, and clear roles for waste management across the supply chain. The document advocates for policy changes to support new circular business models and markets for secondary raw materials.
Mr Juhani Ilmola: S Group Responsibility Programmecooperatives
The document outlines S Group's responsibility program in Finland. S Group is a Finnish consumer cooperative retail company group with over 2 million members. It has diverse businesses including grocery stores, petrol stations, department stores, hotels, and a bank. The program was developed in response to stakeholder expectations around issues like well-being, ethics, employment, and the environment. Key elements of the program include improving traceability of products, monitoring social and environmental impacts in the supply chain, developing sustainability of raw materials like fish and palm oil, and improving energy efficiency such as a target to generate 50% of electricity from wind turbines by 2016.
Ann Ballinger from Eunomia Research & Consulting presented the results of a cost benefit analysis of different options for managing digestate from anaerobic digestion in Wales. The analysis considered eight options including applying whole digestate to agricultural land, dilution to different dry solid percentages, various treatment processes, and transport distances. The results showed that applying whole digestate to land was the best option environmentally but that financial costs increased with additional processing. Dilution to 20% dry solids with 80km transport had the lowest overall costs. Biological oxidation of liquor followed by discharge to watercourses was also competitive. Longer transport distances favored treatment before land application.
Applied CleanTech presentation on equitynet - November 2014Applied CleanTech
Changing the Way We Handle Wastewater – at Applied CleanTech, we developed a unique, innovative solution that creates a usable and valuable product from wastewater. Instead of producing sludge, waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) now manufacture Recyllose - a recycled cellulose-based product from wastewater. Our technology significantly reduces sludge formation by extracting cellulose out of raw wastewater, while saving costs and energy to WWTPs throughout the entire process, as well as reducing GHG emissions and carbon footprint.
This company presentation summarizes the services of a waste management and renewable energy company. The company's core activities include bioenergy, petrochemicals, and waste management. Its goal is to convert waste and byproducts into renewable energy. It offers services related to renewable energy generation including feasibility studies, technology selection, and project development. It also offers brokerage services to connect international partners for biomass, biofuels, petrochemical byproducts, and waste streams. The company is currently developing projects to convert unusable materials like chicken manure and refuse derived fuel into renewable energy.
The document provides information about Pack Less, a flexible pallet system that is an alternative to traditional wood pallets. It is made from 100% polypropylene using a mechanical process without molds or steam. Key points include:
- Pack Less is lighter weight, more flexible and resistant than wood pallets
- It uses less energy and resources compared to wood pallets and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
- Pack Less is waterproof, inert and recyclable
- The company has established several international licensing partners and produced over 500,000 units by 2012
Project LIBERTY is the transformation of an existing conventional corn dry mill ethanol facility into an integrated bio-refinery with eco-sustainable and renewable technologies.
Werner & Mertz Professional presentation 2018 English Benoit Lesgardeur
The document discusses the vision and initiatives of Werner & Mertz to bring sustainability to life through their products and operations. Their approach is to use cradle to cradle design principles to create a circular economy with sustainable material streams and regenerative systems. Key initiatives include using renewable resources and recycled content in formulas and packaging, implementing effective recycling programs, and powering operations with renewable energy. The goal is to protect the environment and future generations by doing things right and making a difference through their pioneering work in integral sustainability.
How can food and beverage businesses reduce packaging footprint? Carbon Smart outlines four key areas in the product design and use stages where businesses can have a meaningful impact
Covestro is the world's leading manufacturer of aliphatic and aromatic polyisocyanates and offers an extensive range of innovative products and solutions for the coatings and adhesives industries. Covestro aims to help customers turn challenges like increasing quality demands and sustainability expectations into competitive advantages through innovation. Covestro has over 80 years of experience innovating polyisocyanate products and developing solutions that enhance process efficiency while reducing waste and emissions to contribute to sustainability.
Grupo Karim's is a multinational corporation operating in real estate development and textiles with operations in Central America, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. One of its subsidiaries, Pride Chemicals, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of textile auxiliaries and dyes in Central America. Pride Chemicals aims to provide innovative and sustainable chemical solutions while exceeding customer expectations. It has manufacturing and laboratory facilities, and distributes products across Grupo Karim's warehouses in the Americas and Caribbean.
Designing flexible packaging so it can be easily collected, sorted and recycled is a fundamental of the circular economy. But how does that happen in practice?
CEFLEX and stakeholders Kraft Heinz and Gualapack take you behind the product and into the detail in this case study.
1) Mauser Group provides industrial packaging solutions across the full life cycle from new packaging to reconditioned packaging.
2) They build their own blowmolding and IBC washing equipment to better control quality and maximize reuse of containers.
3) Mauser offers a broad portfolio of packaging products including new, hybrid with recycled content, and reconditioned containers to meet diverse customer needs.
The document discusses why companies are moving towards a circular economy. It notes that resource scarcity and price volatility pose risks, while the circular economy presents opportunities to mitigate risks, reduce costs, and improve competitiveness. Companies that implement circular principles around durability, reuse, recycling, and reduced material use can address climate change and prepare for upcoming regulations. The circular economy is a $4.5 trillion business opportunity that companies are pursuing to manage risks and capture benefits of a sustainable, resilient economic model.
Fibre2Fashion contributes first when it comes to textile sustainability. Our recently launched feature on "Sustainability Plus - From Conservation to Business Conversions", has covered major industry players through this initiative. This feature talks about companies playing a major role in sustainability, their sustainable products as well as business practices & other measures towards making a greener environment.
Sustainability plus also confers about important issues & processes involved in textile sustainability, well defined laws & regulations, conservation measures, scope & future market and a lot more information.
The document discusses IKEA's new circular approach which aims to prolong the life of products, use resources more smartly, and close the materials cycle. The key aspects of this approach are developing ranges with circular design in mind, meeting customers' needs for help with problems at home, and creating a circular supply chain where materials are recycled or reused.
This document summarizes Dr. Donna Rawlinson's presentation on Northumbrian Water's innovative approach to sludge treatment. It discusses how Northumbrian Water uses advanced anaerobic digestion (AAD) to treat sludge, producing renewable energy and reducing costs. Their AAD systems at two sites produce enough electricity to power 30,000 homes annually. Northumbrian Water is also expanding AAD by adding food waste digestion and connecting the biogas to a gas grid to further reduce fossil fuel usage and increase renewable energy production.
The document summarizes connecting biomethane production sites to the gas grid in the UK. It discusses Future Biogas' journey connecting sites since 2011, including the first commercial grid injection site in 2013. It provides a checklist for producers to connect, and notes potential show stoppers like lack of network capacity. The presentation discusses the first high pressure private pipeline connection in North Norfolk in collaboration with National Grid, and ongoing challenges around connection costs, propane addition for blending, regulatory burdens, and grid capacity issues. It concludes that while progress has been made, more is still needed to support the pace of industry growth.
The World Circular Economy Forum presents the world’s best circular economy solutions and gathers together the most recognised experts and decision makers in the field. The event is organised by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. Read more: www.wcef2019.com
The document outlines IKEA's business case for transitioning to a circular economy model. It discusses designing products for circularity using recycled materials from IKEA stores, like using shrink wrap waste in water bottles. It also outlines initiatives to prolong product life through repair, renting, sharing, take-back programs, and clear roles for waste management across the supply chain. The document advocates for policy changes to support new circular business models and markets for secondary raw materials.
Mr Juhani Ilmola: S Group Responsibility Programmecooperatives
The document outlines S Group's responsibility program in Finland. S Group is a Finnish consumer cooperative retail company group with over 2 million members. It has diverse businesses including grocery stores, petrol stations, department stores, hotels, and a bank. The program was developed in response to stakeholder expectations around issues like well-being, ethics, employment, and the environment. Key elements of the program include improving traceability of products, monitoring social and environmental impacts in the supply chain, developing sustainability of raw materials like fish and palm oil, and improving energy efficiency such as a target to generate 50% of electricity from wind turbines by 2016.
Ann Ballinger from Eunomia Research & Consulting presented the results of a cost benefit analysis of different options for managing digestate from anaerobic digestion in Wales. The analysis considered eight options including applying whole digestate to agricultural land, dilution to different dry solid percentages, various treatment processes, and transport distances. The results showed that applying whole digestate to land was the best option environmentally but that financial costs increased with additional processing. Dilution to 20% dry solids with 80km transport had the lowest overall costs. Biological oxidation of liquor followed by discharge to watercourses was also competitive. Longer transport distances favored treatment before land application.
Applied CleanTech presentation on equitynet - November 2014Applied CleanTech
Changing the Way We Handle Wastewater – at Applied CleanTech, we developed a unique, innovative solution that creates a usable and valuable product from wastewater. Instead of producing sludge, waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) now manufacture Recyllose - a recycled cellulose-based product from wastewater. Our technology significantly reduces sludge formation by extracting cellulose out of raw wastewater, while saving costs and energy to WWTPs throughout the entire process, as well as reducing GHG emissions and carbon footprint.
This company presentation summarizes the services of a waste management and renewable energy company. The company's core activities include bioenergy, petrochemicals, and waste management. Its goal is to convert waste and byproducts into renewable energy. It offers services related to renewable energy generation including feasibility studies, technology selection, and project development. It also offers brokerage services to connect international partners for biomass, biofuels, petrochemical byproducts, and waste streams. The company is currently developing projects to convert unusable materials like chicken manure and refuse derived fuel into renewable energy.
The document provides information about Pack Less, a flexible pallet system that is an alternative to traditional wood pallets. It is made from 100% polypropylene using a mechanical process without molds or steam. Key points include:
- Pack Less is lighter weight, more flexible and resistant than wood pallets
- It uses less energy and resources compared to wood pallets and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
- Pack Less is waterproof, inert and recyclable
- The company has established several international licensing partners and produced over 500,000 units by 2012
Project LIBERTY is the transformation of an existing conventional corn dry mill ethanol facility into an integrated bio-refinery with eco-sustainable and renewable technologies.
Werner & Mertz Professional presentation 2018 English Benoit Lesgardeur
The document discusses the vision and initiatives of Werner & Mertz to bring sustainability to life through their products and operations. Their approach is to use cradle to cradle design principles to create a circular economy with sustainable material streams and regenerative systems. Key initiatives include using renewable resources and recycled content in formulas and packaging, implementing effective recycling programs, and powering operations with renewable energy. The goal is to protect the environment and future generations by doing things right and making a difference through their pioneering work in integral sustainability.
How can food and beverage businesses reduce packaging footprint? Carbon Smart outlines four key areas in the product design and use stages where businesses can have a meaningful impact
Covestro is the world's leading manufacturer of aliphatic and aromatic polyisocyanates and offers an extensive range of innovative products and solutions for the coatings and adhesives industries. Covestro aims to help customers turn challenges like increasing quality demands and sustainability expectations into competitive advantages through innovation. Covestro has over 80 years of experience innovating polyisocyanate products and developing solutions that enhance process efficiency while reducing waste and emissions to contribute to sustainability.
Grupo Karim's is a multinational corporation operating in real estate development and textiles with operations in Central America, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. One of its subsidiaries, Pride Chemicals, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of textile auxiliaries and dyes in Central America. Pride Chemicals aims to provide innovative and sustainable chemical solutions while exceeding customer expectations. It has manufacturing and laboratory facilities, and distributes products across Grupo Karim's warehouses in the Americas and Caribbean.
Designing flexible packaging so it can be easily collected, sorted and recycled is a fundamental of the circular economy. But how does that happen in practice?
CEFLEX and stakeholders Kraft Heinz and Gualapack take you behind the product and into the detail in this case study.
1) Mauser Group provides industrial packaging solutions across the full life cycle from new packaging to reconditioned packaging.
2) They build their own blowmolding and IBC washing equipment to better control quality and maximize reuse of containers.
3) Mauser offers a broad portfolio of packaging products including new, hybrid with recycled content, and reconditioned containers to meet diverse customer needs.
The document discusses why companies are moving towards a circular economy. It notes that resource scarcity and price volatility pose risks, while the circular economy presents opportunities to mitigate risks, reduce costs, and improve competitiveness. Companies that implement circular principles around durability, reuse, recycling, and reduced material use can address climate change and prepare for upcoming regulations. The circular economy is a $4.5 trillion business opportunity that companies are pursuing to manage risks and capture benefits of a sustainable, resilient economic model.
Fibre2Fashion contributes first when it comes to textile sustainability. Our recently launched feature on "Sustainability Plus - From Conservation to Business Conversions", has covered major industry players through this initiative. This feature talks about companies playing a major role in sustainability, their sustainable products as well as business practices & other measures towards making a greener environment.
Sustainability plus also confers about important issues & processes involved in textile sustainability, well defined laws & regulations, conservation measures, scope & future market and a lot more information.
Sustainability Plus compendium - an initiative by fibre2fashion.combhargav pathak
Highly admired & appreciated by the industry leaders, Fibre2fashion.com first initiative of Sustainability Compendium has acquired the interest of the global textile industry at large. Sustainability, as widely talked, is the new mantra of innovation which is of vital concern for the companies and an integral part of 'Corporate Strategy' in the industry today. With growing awareness and higher emphasis on Sustainable manufacturing in Textile, Apparel and Fashion industries has inspired us to launch the 2nd version of our Sustainability Compendium for a continued widespread focus on Sustainable manufacturing.
Werner & Mertz Group - EMAS Sustainability report 2016 2017Benoit Lesgardeur
This document is the 2016/2017 sustainability report of the Werner & Mertz Group. It summarizes the company's initiatives and achievements related to sustainability over the past year. Some highlights include receiving the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovator Award for its Frosch and green care Professional brands. It also discusses the company's Recyclate Initiative to increase recycled content in plastic packaging and its use of plant-based surfactants. The report provides environmental data for the company's production sites in Mainz, Germany and Hallein, Austria and details its various projects promoting biodiversity and conservation.
Biobased Chemicals, Industrial Sugar and the development of BiorefineriesNNFCC
This presentation, developed as part of the Interreg NWE Bio Base NWE project, was presented at the UK Institute of Food Research Annual Food and Health Symposium. It provides an overview of developments in the biobased chemicals market and how the UK in developing an ecosystem for the development of Industrial Biotechnology including the potential for knowledge exchange in North West Europe.
1) The document discusses sustainable packaging strategies and initiatives in the foodservice industry. It addresses legislation around reducing waste and increasing recycling rates.
2) Material options that are more sustainable like renewable, recycled, and biodegradable materials are outlined. The challenges with establishing infrastructure for collecting and processing certain materials is also noted.
3) HGS's European strategy prioritizes using renewable and recycled materials in their packaging designs when possible. Their hierarchy of material choice and environmental criteria for packaging design are explained. Metrics for reducing weight, carbon footprint, and chemicals are part of their strategy.
Taino Group LLC - Wholesale Distributor of Compostable Tableware Products (20...Taino Group LLC
2022 Catalogue of compostable products made with 100% natural raw materials, promoting the responsible consumption of single-use products, aligned with green and sustainable economies.
This document discusses a presentation given by Dr. Claire Sand at the FoodPackSummit 2018 in Mexico. The presentation focuses on developing a more sustainable food packaging future with more value. It discusses strategies for sourcing packaging materials sustainably from biomass or recycled materials, enabling recycling of packaging, and increasing packaging functionality to reduce food waste and enhance the consumer experience. Specific technologies presented include chemically recyclable polymers, incorporation of nanoparticles, and single polymer composite structures.
The document discusses how chemistry can help create a more sustainable future. It notes that sustainability presents both risks and opportunities for businesses. Chemistry innovations can help address challenges from population growth, like providing food and clean water to more people, while reducing environmental impacts. The document outlines BASF's strategies for developing sustainable solutions, like categorizing products based on their sustainability contributions and creating action plans to improve products. It provides examples of how BASF is working with key industries like automotive, construction, and agriculture to create solutions that enhance resource efficiency and reduce costs.
GreenBiz 16 Workshop Slides: "Closing the Loop to Advance a New Economy"GreenBiz Group
Slides for "Closing the Loop to Advance a New Economy". With the take-make-waste linear model no longer viable, companies are actively pursuing alternative models such as the circular economy, which has captured the imagination of the private sector as a viable approach for decoupling economic growth from resource constraints. The circular economy, an industrial model that is restorative or regenerative by design and intent, aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility at all times, and represents an opportunity worth in excess of $1 trillion for the global economy. In this session, we will explore how companies can leverage circular economy principles and best practices to help eliminate waste throughout the value chain and improve the bottom line.
Bridging the bioeconomy innovation gap - The Bio Base NWE projectNNFCC
This presentation was delivered at the 'The First Annual BEACON Conference: Biorefining from Plants to Products'. The presentation discusses the drivers for biobased chemicals in the bioeconomy and the need to support innovation through process scale up and demonstration.
Semelhante a The Rise of Bio-Materials and Bio-Products: Current State of Play, Likely Future Scenarios, and Effective Brand Strategies (20)
How a Breakthrough Product Portfolio Assessment is Changing Business Strategy...Sustainable Brands
Dirk Voeste of BASF Corporation discusses how BASF is changing its business strategy through a breakthrough product portfolio assessment that evaluates the sustainability of its solutions. Key points:
- BASF categorized all of its products into four categories based on their sustainability contributions. It aims to increase the percentage of "Accelerator" products that substantially contribute to sustainability.
- The assessment analyzed 60,000+ product applications representing €66.3 billion in sales. It found that 23% were Accelerators that outgrow markets with higher margins. Over 60% of BASF's R&D pipeline are Accelerators.
- BASF integrates sustainability fully into its investment decisions and portfolio management as a major lever to
Building Harmony: How to Champion Sustainability from Grain to BiscuitSustainable Brands
Mondelēz International is focused on sustainability across its biscuit operations in Europe. Albert Mathieu, President of the Biscuit Category Europe, discusses how the company works with farmers to grow crops sustainably and reduces environmental impact at factories. The goal is to champion sustainability from grain to finished biscuit.
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
This document discusses how companies can drive business model transformation from within by recognizing changing markets, fitting new models with corporate strategy, and building support networks. It provides examples of innovative business models and recommends mapping current models, planning the customer journey, and assembling all elements like market needs and strategic aims to form a new "jigsaw" business model. The goal is to help businesses develop profitable approaches to sustainability through the REBus project which provides free support for pilot programs across Europe.
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
This document summarizes research from the Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) on global sustainability trends. NMI conducts an annual tracking study of over 150,000 consumer interviews in 23 countries to understand attitudes and behaviors related to environmental and social responsibility. The research compares perspectives between developed countries like the US, UK, Germany and Japan, and emerging countries like Russia, China, India and Brazil. It finds that consumers in emerging countries generally care more about environmental protection and socially responsible business. The research also shows increases since 2010 in consumers choosing sustainable products over conventional options.
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
This document summarizes a presentation on the future of living spaces and workplaces given at Sustainable Brands London in November 2015. The presentation discusses research that identifies different consumer attitudes towards sustainability and circular concepts. It also outlines several emerging trends, like the squeeze on living space in urban areas, the blurring of work and personal life, the rise of responsive smart home technologies, community-focused "maker" movements, and a growing focus on zero waste solutions. These underlying technological and social changes are creating more opportunities for sustainable living than can be achieved through messaging alone. The presentation argues that businesses should focus on aligning with these emerging needs rather than just "selling sustainability."
Market Insights from Top Researchers: The Latest Intelligence on Customer Att...Sustainable Brands
1) The document summarizes a report by Wolff Olins investigating how leadership practices are changing to adapt to employees who are independent and individualistic.
2) It discusses tensions leaders face in creating an "uncorporation" culture that liberates employees while still meeting corporate goals. It also outlines shifts in leadership approaches over time from command-and-control to more distributed and purpose-driven models.
3) Key leadership approaches highlighted include acting as a "Designer in Chief" who focuses on culture rather than outputs, distributed leadership that trusts employees, and providing a "rough sense of purpose" rather than rigid ideologies.
New Tactics in Contextual Promotion of Healthy LifestylesSustainable Brands
Disney has had a longstanding commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles since 2006. This includes establishing nutritional guidelines for food and beverages, implementing promotional guidelines, and partnering with organizations like Change4Life. Disney aims to make healthy living fun and accessible for families through storytelling, experiences like Run Disney races, and partnerships with advocates, retailers, and chefs. Research shows that healthy living is universally important to parents worldwide who trust Disney to help children live active, well-balanced lives.
Sustainable Living Brands: Why Purpose Alone is Not Enough to Drive Sustainab...Sustainable Brands
Unilever's VP of Sustainable Business argues that while having a strong purpose is important for brands, it is not enough on its own to drive sustainable growth. Brands need to demonstrate their positive impact through transparency and accountability. She also stresses the importance of engaging consumers in purpose by showing how individual actions can contribute to collective change.
Leveraging the New UN Sustainable Development Goals: Expectations and Engagem...Sustainable Brands
The document discusses a presentation by Anna Swaithes from SABMiller on leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals for brands. SABMiller has over 200 local brands consumed in over 80 countries. SABMiller is committed to contributing to the Global Goals and having three brands in each market build sustainable development messages into their brand activations by 2020. Examples are provided of brands in India, Uganda, and Colombia that are engaging in programs focused on livelihoods, sustainable supply chains, and supporting workers and farmers.
Leveraging the New UN Sustainable Development Goals: Expectations and Engagem...Sustainable Brands
This document discusses leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals for brands. It provides an introduction to the goals, including ending poverty, and outlines expectations for business engagement. Civil society organizations see opportunities for businesses to contribute through their core activities. The business case for alignment with the SDGs includes access to new markets among the 4 billion living in poverty and growth in green technologies worth over $3 trillion by 2020.
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as t...vijaykumar292010
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as the Directive 2002/95/EC. It includes the restrictions for the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS is a WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...
The Rise of Bio-Materials and Bio-Products: Current State of Play, Likely Future Scenarios, and Effective Brand Strategies
1. Duncan Cross | @Renmatrix
Renmatrix
The
Rise
of
Bio-‐Materials
and
Bio-‐Products:
Current
State
of
Play,
Likely
Future
Scenarios,
and
Effec@ve
Brand
Strategies
Kathryn Sheridan | @SustConsult
Sustainability Consult
Marcel Lubben
Reverdia
Tom Szaky | @TerraCycle
TerraCycle
Thomas Kläusli
AVA Biochem
10. Our Community
• Member of 1% for the Planet – donating
1% of sales to Natuurpunt
• First European 1% for the Planet
Ambassador
11. Sustainability Communications
• All visibility and no credibility =
greenwashing
• All credibility and no visibility =
commercial death
• Credibility and Visibility
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Renewable Solutions for Sustainable Brands
Reverdia’s Biosuccinium™ enables renewable solutions
for Sustainable Brands
Resins & Solvents
(coatings)
PBS (packaging, adhesives,
paper lamination)
Polyurethanes (foams,
adhesives)
-Through its unique low pH yeast Biosuccinium™ technology
-By co-developing and commercializing with its clients & partners in a
unique value chain collaboration model
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Example: renewable footwear value chain
• Corn based
today
• Alternatives
(from
agricultural
waste) under
evaluation
• Commercial
production plant
since Dec. 2012
• Biosuccinium™-
based polyols
developed
• Biosuccinium™-
based
Desmopan®
polyurethane
(PU) available
• Interest for renewable PU identified
• PU samples being tested
• Shoe sole production
• Pre marketing series
• First commercialization
Biomass
Feedstocks
Materials OEM /
Part maker
Brand
Owner
17. 16
Example: renewable packaging value chain
Reverdia Lead Partner In BioSuccInnovate Consortium* for development
of a radically new food packaging value chain based on renewable
materials
*Through ADMIT BioSuccInnovate, an innovative Climate-KIC initiative funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), along with the Institute of
Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University and other European partners, CIMV, UK retailer Waitrose and food tray producer Sharpak
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5-HMF - PERFORMANCE
ADVANTAGES
5-‐HMF
is
the
star2ng
point
for
many
future
bio-‐based
products.
Ø used
as
performance
ingredient
in
food,
agro,
pharma
Ø converted
to
at
least
150
relevant
chemicals
Ø converted
to
monomers
for
at
least
20
different
polymers
à
e.g.
PEF
Ø used
to
replace
formaldehyde
in
furniture
produc2on
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Plas2cs
Bio-‐Plas2cs
Source: Worldwatch Institute / European Bioplastics (2013)
Plastics: 299 Mio. t/a
Bioplastics: 1.6 Mio. t/a
BIO-‐PLASTICS
INDUSTRY
IS
STILL
IN
ITS
EARLY
STAGES