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  • Lanxess' green chemistry goals

    If a chemical or chemicals can help make cars reduce fuel consumption and carbon emission; help create cheaper fuel cells or solar panels; or make existing or new sources of water drinkable, does this mean the chemical or chemicals can be categorized as green? Even if they are not made from plants, bacteria...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008

  • Cleaner livestock waste

    Residents near farms or livestock processing facilities will soon breathe a cleaner (and less smelly) sigh of relief. Bion Environmental Technologies said they now have a patent approval for their phosphorus removal process in livestock waste treatment. The company said excess nutrients from livestock...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • Don't throw your old newspaper!

    According to this article from the New Journal of Chemistry , Japanese researchers from Saga University were able to recover precious metals such as gold, palladium and platinum from industrial wastewater using a sorption active gel formed from chemically treating an ordinary newspaper with p-amino benzoic...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2008

  • Video about eco-solutions

    I came across this really cool YouTube video from GreenTechnology.com . It features one of CNN's EcoSolutions segment about developments of biobased or energy-reducing electronics by Sony as well as Mohawk carpets made from recycled plastic bottles. Based on watching this video it occurred to me...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008

  • Views on green cleaning

    ICIS Chemical Business (disclosure: I work for ICIS ) published its second soap and detergent issue for the year and like the first one, the global cleaning industry continue its major focus on sustainability, regulation and innovation. As far as the green cleaning trend goes, eco-labeling seems to be...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • Projects and protests

    I am back from my holiday and have discovered no earthshaking developments in the last few weeks. But the following news articles caught my eye. First, Dow Chemical’s European arm and GACL have agreed on a 50:50 joint venture to produce 200,000 tonnes/year of chloromethanes at Dahej, on the west coast...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008
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