L’Oréal has entered a multi-year partnership with carbon utilization startup Dioxycle to develop sustainable polyethylene packaging sourced directly from captured industrial carbon emissions.

The EU-funded UNICO2RN consortium, led by Avantium, has launched a major initiative to scale electrochemical technologies that convert industrial CO2 emissions into sustainable polyester building blocks.

Researchers have engineered a bacterial strain capable of utilizing light energy to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into biodegradable PHB plastics and biofuels.