A roundup of this week's top stories
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90% of plastics converters face severe raw materials shortages
Supply shortages of polymer resin have hit 90% of European converters, threatening the manufacture of numerous end products, the European Plastics Converters (EuPC) trade group has said...
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Apple to invest in forests to aid in carbon capture
Tech giant Apple has created a $200 million (€167 million) fund to be invested in the creation of timber forests which will be managed as a way of removing excess carbon from the atmosphere while also generating profits, the company revealed on...
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Pulp & paper waste could be used in road construction
Researchers in Canada have been researching ways of using pulp and waste from the paper industry to aid in the future of sustainable road construction...
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SYNLAB and NHS create diagnostic partnership
SYNLAB has commenced a 15-year partnership with the UK’s NHS to deliver and transform medical diagnostic services for more than two million people as part of one of the largest medical diagnostic partnerships in Europe...
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NASA & California partner on methane-mapping satellite project
The US State of California has partnered with NASA in a $100 million (€83 million) project aiming to use satellites to pinpoint large greenhouse gas emissions from individual sources such as oil refineries and power plants...
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EU to enshrine net-zero goals
EU leaders on Wednesday reached an agreement to lay out and enshrine into law the bloc's tactics for achieving its goals of complete carbon neutrality by 2050...
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Sasol joins European coalition for sustainable aviation fuel
South Africa's Sasol announced it will work alongside a consortium of European companies, known collectively as the H2 comprising Linde, Enertrag and Navitas to work on a concept for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) under the auspices of the German...
