The Chemport Innovation Centre (CIC) was launched in Delfzijl, in the Northern Netherlands: a new facility for scale-ups in the Chemport Europe ecosystem that contribute to the greening of chemistry.

The chemical industry is facing a radical turnaround: from fossil fuels as the trusted basis for polymers to renewable (bio)raw materials, waste streams and/or recycled materials. And from linear value chains to a circular industry based on value cycles. Only in this way is the ambition to be fully circular by 2050 achievable.

On 18 January, students will kick off the ReThink Waste Challenge, an international student competition looking for the next step towards a sustainable world without waste organized by Wageningen University & Research. The competing student teams will come up with their own business idea or prototype for a technology that will reduce or reuse waste, create reusable materials, and contributes to a sustainable future.