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A novel fully biobased material composite for cosmetic packaging applications [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The extensive production and use of fossil-based plastics have led to their ubiquity worldwide, causing growing concern and environmental problems. Consequently, developing biobased polymers and biobased composite materials, aligned with circular economy
Fátima Santos, Pedro Rodrigues, Patrício Vargas, Anabela Massano, Luís Miguel Oliveira, Catarina Batista, Vasco Cruz, Artur Mateus, Geoffrey R. Mitchell, Abílio J. F. N. Sobral, Telma Encarnação   +10 more
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Logistics and Supply Chain Modelling for the Biobased Economy: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 2022
One way to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, is for society to move towards a biobased economy, where fossil resources are replaced by biobased ones.
Helena Margaretha Stellingwerf, Xuezhen Guo, Engelbertus Annevelink, Behzad Behdani   +3 more
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Business Models, Including Higher Value Products for the New Circular, Resource-Efficient Biobased Industry

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022
The biobased business model, which initiated the era of improved use of the biological resources, upgrading resources otherwise wasted or downgraded, started with the “biomass to biofuel” biorefinery: economy by scale, requiring large investments, and ...
Lene Lange
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PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BIOECONOMY STRATEGIES [PDF]

Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2020
The report examines existing bioeconomy strategies. The principles and guidelines of the individual countries for the implementation of the strategies are considered. A comparative analysis of the strategies was made.
P. Branzova
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The Keys to Clean Energy Technology: Impact of Environmental Taxes on Biofuel Production and Consumption

Energies, 2022
The growing level of modern environmental problems and the need to ensure energy security creates new challenges for the development of the energy sector.
Yuriy Bilan, Yaryna Samusevych, Serhiy Lyeonov, Marcin Strzelec, Iryna Tenytska   +4 more
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Synthesis of novel vanillin-amine hardeners fully derived from renewable bio feedstocks and their curing with epoxy resins to produce recyclable reprocessable vitrimers

Heliyon, 2023
Biobased epoxy vitrimers have reached intense interest in recent decades. The triggerable reverse bonds can be introduced into these crosslinked epoxy vitrimers through epoxy resins or hardeners.
Muhammad Abdur Rashid, Md Nabiul Hasan, Md Abdullahil Kafi   +2 more
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Biobased economy available biomass resources in the Czech Republic

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2006
During the past two decades academia, industry and government have aimed more and more their attention to the phenomenon of a biobased economy providing society with non‐food biobased products.
Zdenek Wegscheider, Mojmir Sabolovic
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Repairing What Policy Is Missing Out on: A Constructive View on Prospects and Preconditions for Sustainable Biobased Economy Options to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change

Energies, 2022
Biomass use for energy and materials is, on the one hand, one of the key mitigation options to reach the 1.5 °C GMT target set in the Paris Agreement, as highlighted by the IPCC and many other key analyses. On the other hand, particularly in parts of the
André P. C. Faaij
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Biomaterials: A Sustainable Solution for a Circular Economy

Engineering Proceedings, 2023
A few of the reasons behind the introduction of the concept of biomaterials, such as biopolymers to address problems like plastic pollution, include a lower reliance on fossil resources, reduced carbon emissions, a focus on non-renewable resource ...
Jayana Rajvanshi, Monika Sogani, Anu Kumar, Sudipti Arora   +3 more
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Biobased economy for Brazil: Impacts and strategies for maximizing socioeconomic benefits

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021
Fossil fuels dominate the current energy and chemicals' supply and this leads to a rapid growth in global greenhouse gas emissions. One mitigation option is using renewable feedstock for materials, chemicals (ethylene, propylene, acrylic acid and butanol) and, mostly, energy carriers (biodiesel, renewable jet fuel, ethanol and bioelectricity).
Machado, P.G., Cunha, M., Walter, A., Faaij, A.P.C., Guilhoto, J.J.M.   +4 more
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