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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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CiCLO® Biodegradable Fabrics

Sustainable textiles additive that creates biodegradable spots in the matrix of plastic by combining it with polyeste

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Inventor:

Intrinsic Advanced Materials (IAM) Intrinsic Textiles Group and Parkdale Advanced Materials

Stage of Development:

System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Textiles/Textile Processing

Citropol® and Sustainable Ingredients

Ingredients for flavors, fragrances, cosmetics, personal care products, and specialty materials.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Fine Chemicals

CMAP Technology for Plastics

Resinergy is developing an innovative, scalable, and environmentally efficient Continuous Microwave Assiste

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University of Minnesota

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Plastics & Polymers

Coffee Flour

Uses waste coffee pulp and skin to create dense, nutritional flour.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Food

Coflore®

Continuous flow reactors and continuous flow chemicals plays for fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Bulk Chemicals

Coldstrip™

Uses water and oxygen to remove photoresist and other organic contaminants in producing semiconductors and flat panel

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Electronics

Colorifix: Dyes from Agricultural Waste

Converts agricultural waste products into dyes by using microbes.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Textiles/Textile Processing

Computational chemistry and Digitalization Platform

DUDE CHEM is a German-based startup dedicated to advancing sustainable chemical production.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Pharmaceuticals