Top Stories of the Week: May 9-13

                                  A roundup of this week's top stories:

• Iberojet has eliminated single-use plastics from its flights - here's how

  Single-use plastics are problematic for the planet. They're the leading cause of plastic waste and many can take between 20 and 500 years to degrade, but one Spanish airliner has done its part to remove them from the equation...

• Scandinavian firms team up to turn alcohol into jet fuel

  Around 400,000 metric tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made using alcohol could be developed per year as part of the national government's Fossil Free Sweden scheme to decarbonise hard-to-abate industrial sectors...

• Volkswagen's €10bn investment in Spain

  German carmaker Volkswagen and its Spanish subsidiary Seat have announced plans to build a €10 billion battery factory in the Spanish province of Valencia.

• Introducing Europe's first drug discovery & biotech SPAC

  A new major player in biotech and drug discovery has launched in Europe with an aim to becoming a one-stop boutique manufacturing network for companies that need smaller batches of medicines...

• RSC launches recycling campaign as e-waste piles up

  The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has launched a new campaign to highlight how using precious elements in electronic devices is not sustainable and that current recycling levels are inadequate...

• US startup develops world's first rechargeable alkaline battery

  The creation of alkaline batteries has the potential to become almost entirely self-sufficient thanks to a new rechargeable battery supplied to an EverZinc plant in Eijsden, Netherlands, by US startup Urban Electric Power (UEP)...

• Google & augmented reality will help e-scooter users park

  E-scooters are very much a trend and their popularity can often make life miserable for pedestrians, with them being left wantonly in streets, clogging walkways and disrupting pedestrians, but a free new app may be here to help...