Ananas Anam is a UK company known for its innovative approach to sustainable materials. The company specializes in Piňatex®, a sustainable alternative to textiles made from pineapple leaf fibers. Piňatex® offers low impact textile solutions that helps brands and industries to reduce their emissions and achieve their climate and sustainability goals.
Worn Again Technologies, a UK-based company, is dedicated to revolutionizing textile recycling by creating a circular economy for fabrics. Their innovative process enables textiles to be continuously recycled into new products. Worn again has developed a process that separates, decontaminates, and recaptures raw materials from mixed fibers, such as polyester and cotton, and turns them into virgin-like materials. Using a closed-loop chemical recycling process, Worn Again maximizes material recovery while enhancing environmental sustainability.
Pectcof is an innovative startup that transforms coffee pulp biomass, a byproduct of post-harvest coffee processing, into valuable bio-based materials. The company's flagship product, Dutch Gum®, is a groundbreaking hydrocolloid (thickening agent) that modifies textures, viscosities, and product stability, making it ideal for use in plant-based foods.
EcoaTEX is advancing sustainability in the textile industry with its eco-friendly approach to textile coatings, focusing on transforming natural, renewable resources into sustainable fibers, dyes, and leather alternatives. Their innovative technologies—Eco-finishing, Eco-fiber, and Bio-based Alternative Leather—utilize green chemistry and nanotechnology to reduce environmental impact.
Lubyren™ is a product line developed by Afyren, a French company specializing in producing bio-based chemicals and ingredients through innovative fermentation processes. Afyren is committed to providing sustainable and circular solutions to industries traditionally dependent on petrochemical-based products. Lubyren™ offers a range of 100% bio-based carboxylic acids as eco-friendly alternatives to crude oil-derived acids commonly used in lubricant formulations.
Dear GCS colleagues,
I would like to share with you the 1st Green Chemistry Conference that will be held in Arequipa City on 29th August 2024.
This is a hybrid Conference executed in the context of The Global GreenChem, Innovation and Network Programme (GGINP) which is leaded by the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University and UNIDO with GEF funds. In Peru, The GGINP is implemented by the National Cleaner Production Center of Peru, named CER and operated by Grupo GEA in coordination with the Ministry of Environment (focal point of GEF).
Loliware has developed Sea Technology™, a groundbreaking category of seaweed-based resins designed to replace plastic at scale. Utilizing regenerative, carbon-capturing, ocean-farmed seaweed, Sea Tech™ Resins mimic the look and feel of traditional plastics and are specifically engineered to be compatible with existing manufacturing equipment, ensuring a smooth transition to sustainable practices. These resins are always Designed to Disappear™, decomposing as quickly as a banana peel. Products made from Sea Tech™ can either be eaten or composted into soil.
The course addresses the importance of the circular economy, its principles, strategies, practices, and business models, as well as the means to promote its implementation at the country or community level. It offers practical cases from Ukraine and around the world.
The course will be of interest to representatives of government (at various levels), civil society, and anyone interested in the implementation of the circular economy in Ukraine.
The course comprises three modules:
