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Imagine H2O Announces 2024 Startup Accelerator Cohort Addressing Water’s Biggest Challenges with Advanced Technologies

Stuart Mitchell

Imagine H2O, a global nonprofit supporting entrepreneurial water solutions, announced its 2024 Accelerator cohort today. Chosen from a highly competitive pool of nearly 400 entrepreneurs, the 10 startups selected are addressing climate change, equity, health, and resource efficiency in water. Imagine H2O’s selection process featured a committee of 75 technical experts, utility leaders, corporate executives, and investors. Committee members evaluated each startup’s business model, technology, team, impact potential, market focus and other commercial viability indicators. “This cohort represents Imagine H2O’s impact priorities and global reach as well as technologies and…

TotalEnergies and Paprec Develop the First French Value Chain for Advanced Recycling of Plastic Film

Stuart Mitchell

TotalEnergies and Paprec, leader in plastic recycling in France, have signed a long-term commercial agreement to develop a French value chain for advanced recycling of plastic film wastes. The agreement will secure the supply of TotalEnergies’ future advanced plastic recycling plant in Grandpuits. Following the terms of this agreement, Citeo, the main organization in charge of end-of-life household packaging in France, will provide a stream of flexible plastic waste sorted from post-consumer packaging. This stream will be delivered to the Paprec Plastiques 80 plant in Amiens (France), where a first-of-its-kind…

EFA Certification Advanced Competence Framework launches to further strengthen fundraising leadership across Europe

Stuart Mitchell

The new EFA Certification Advanced Competence Framework has officially launched, with a focus on the competencies and skills required to lead and manage a successful and contemporary fundraising operation. Covering everything from strategic fundraising planning skills to team management, it enables dedicated educational programmes to be established that support fundraising professionals on their leadership journey, helping them develop, and be assessed on, the skills and competencies required to lead and manage a successful and contemporary fundraising operation. The Advanced Competence Framework handbook and application form are now available in the…

TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project

Stuart Mitchell

TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy have announced a commercial agreement under which New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that TotalEnergies will partly purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers, which can be used for food-grade packaging. The New Hope Energy plant is expected to start production in 2025 and will use a patented pyrolysis technology that was developed in partnership with Lummus Technology to process and convert more than 310,000 tons per year of mixed plastic waste that…

TotalEnergies and Honeywell sign a strategic agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling

Stuart Mitchell

TotalEnergies and Honeywell have announced a strategic agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Honeywell will agree to supply TotalEnergies with Recycled Polymer Feedstock (RPF) using Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology at the recently announced Honeywell and Sacyr advanced recycling plant, intended to be built in Andalucía, Spain. TotalEnergies will purchase and convert this raw material into virgin-quality polymers, which could be used for food-grade packaging and other high demanding applications.  The UpCycle plant, which will be owned by a joint venture between Honeywell and Sacyr,…