NOVA Chemicals Corporation: NOVA Chemicals Provides Food Security to Those in Need
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NOVA Chemicals Corporation ( NOVA Chemicals ) today announced a $125,000 USD donation to food banks in the Company s primary manufacturing, commercial, and operating locations to help provide food security this holiday season to those in need. The latest effort in NOVA Chemicals community response to COVID-19, this financial contribution is in response to children, families, and seniors facing hunger amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We at NOVA Chemicals are acutely aware of the many challenges 2020 has brought to our friends and neighbors, with food security being a particularly troublesome situation for so many. With that in mind, we are partnering with food banks in the communities where we live and work to help those that need it the most, stated Luis Sierra, President and CEO, NOVA Chemicals.
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A Quebec-based start-up is coming closer to realizing a circular economy for plastics manufacturers and helping to save the planet, one yogurt cup at a time.
Pyrowave has developed a technology that nukes hard-to-recycle plastic trash back into identical virgin resins. Named “One to Watch” in the global 2018 50TOWATCH clean techs, it recently caught the attention of Michelin. In the fall of 2020, the French company announced it was investing in Pyrowave’s microwave company. A Michelin executive now sits on Pyrowave’s board.
The global tire manufacturer’s goal is to increase to 100% the composition of its tires made of sustainable material. Using recycled styrene produced by Pyrowave’s technology will help it do that. And Michelin’s involvement will help Pyrowave bring its technology to market faster, says Jocelyn Doucet, the company’s CEO and co-founder.
Recovery of Canada’s plastics, chemical industries will be based on investment attraction, CIAC head says
CIAC president and CEO Bob Masterson also outlined the chemistry and plastics industries’ role in Canada’s economic recovery in a presentation to the federal government’s Standing Finance Committee. December 14, 2020 Canadian Plastics
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The federal government needs to step up its its engagement and improve investment conditions in order for Canada’s chemistry and plastics industries to play their proper role in the nation’s economic recovery, the head of the Ottawa-based Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) said.
In a Dec. 7 virtual presentation to the federal government’s Standing Finance Committee, CIAC president and CEO Bob Masterson spoke on the chemistry and plastics industries’ role in Canada’s economic recovery and made several observations about these industries at present:
Canada, US ink deal on plastic scrap exports
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The United States and Canada have reached an agreement to continue allowing plastic recycling scrap to be traded between the two countries, ahead of stricter new global regulations that could limit U.S. exports.
The Basel Convention, a treaty signed by more than 180 countries, is imposing new restrictions on plastic scrap trade around the world starting Jan. 1.
It s seen as a way to give developing countries more control over imports and limit potential environmental damage from plastic waste that can t be properly recycled.
But since the United States has not ratified the Basel agreement, its exports would face even tighter restrictions than nations within the global treaty.
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