A new research initiative is aiming to unlock new recycling pathways for one of the most challenging waste streams: marine litter.

A new European project, SOWISE+ (Solid Organic Waste Into Sustainable End-products), has officially launched in Italy with the goal of demonstrating the first multipurpose biorefinery of its kind for converting urban biowaste and post-consumer absorbent hygiene products into advanced bio-based materials.

A Spanish research consortium has launched ENDFOULING, a circular economy project that converts organic waste generated in ports into bio-based additives designed to prevent marine biofouling—a major source of fuel consumption and emissions in global shipping.

Dubai, UAE – The countdown has begun for ArabPlast 2027, the Middle East's largest and most influential exhibition for the plastics, petrochemicals, packaging, polymers, recycling, rubber and chemicals industries.