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Safer Alternatives

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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Updraft Gasification System

Gasification systems that convert non-recyclable organic waste (bark, sawdust, clean construction/demolition debris,

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Biofuels

Waste Conversion into Biofuels and Renewable Chemicals

Enerkem specializes in converting waste materials into biofuels and renewable chemicals using patented gasification t

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Bulk Chemicals

Waste-Free Textile Circular Materials

Worn Again Technologies, a UK-based company, is dedicated to revolutionizing textile recycling by creating a circular

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Demonstration /Prototype

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Textiles/Textile Processing

Waster-Based Polyurethane Coating

Two-component (2K) waterborne polyurethane coatings.

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Paints/Coating

Water-Based Acrylic Alkyd Paints

Alkyd paint from recycled plastic bottles (PET), acrylics, and soybean oil with low concentrations of VOCs.

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Paints/Coating