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This is a directory of green chemistry and engineering technologies from around the world, developed by the Yale-UNIDO Global Green Chemistry Initiative. It provides a worldwide snapshot of technologies that are currently commercially available or are in the process of becoming commercially available. The selected technologies are applicable across a broad range of sectors and industries.

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Optimyze®: Enzyme that Improves Paper Recycling

Enzymes that prevent contaminants, or stickies, from agglomerating and interfering with recycling, pulp, and paper ma

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Bulk Chemicals

OrganoTex® (*Also consider OC-AquaSil™ Tex)

PFAS-free and biodegradable textile waterproofing, biobased and readily degradable multi-functional wax, bio-based an

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OrganoClick AB Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Textiles/Textile Processing

Paptic® Packaging Materials

Packaging material made of renewable wood fibers. Paptic® is bio-based, recyclable, reusable, and biodegradable.

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Paptic

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Plastics & Polymers

Pennakem Biosolvents and Fine Chemicals

Renewable source chemistry for the production of biosolvents and fine chemicals.

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Fine Chemicals

Peptide emPOWERed™ Insecticides

Peptide emPOWERed™ Insecticides are peptide-based biological pesticides from naturally occurring molecules with effec

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Agrochemicals/Biocides

Pevalen™

Non-phthalate plasticizer for flexible PVC.

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Perstorp

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Plastics & Polymers

PhosRox™

Biodegradable sorbent that captures nutrients in water.

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XploSafe and Hydra Water Technologies

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Water

PhytoSpherix™

Phytoglycogen sustainably extracted from kernels of sweet corn for cosmetic applications.

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Cosmetics