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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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BiOH® Polyols

Flexible foam derived from soybean oil. Polyols are the key ingredient in making foams flexible and versatile.

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Bulk Chemicals

Bioluminescent Lights

Lux Bio, a startup dedicated to sustainable innovation, has developed "Lume," a revolutionary bioluminescent lighting

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Consumer Products

Biomass Waste as Feedstock to Fuels

Woodland Biofuels is a company that converts waste biomass to hydrogen, renewable natural gas, methanol, or ethanol.

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Demonstration /Prototype

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Biofuels

BIONIC-FINISH® ECO

Fluorine-free and APEO-free water repellent textile finishing agents based on proprietary dendrimer technology.

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Textiles/Textile Processing

BioPrep®

Enzymatic scouring, or BioPreparation™, for the pretreatment of cotton knits, woven yarn, and towels.

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Textiles/Textile Processing

Biopure™ Technology for polyester recycling

Break down of discarded polyester into raw material for new plastic and new products developed by Protein Evolution.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Textiles/Textile Processing

Biosynthetic Selections™

Production of natural ingredients through microbial fermentation processes with engineered microbes.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Fine Chemicals