The European Commission announced a new series of actions on Circular Economy, including a strategy on plastics and measures to improve the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into bio-based products and bio-energy.

The European Commission announced a new series of actions on Circular Economy, including a strategy on plastics and measures to improve the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into bio-based products and bio-energy.
BTG Biomass Technology Group, coordinator of Bio4Products, has helped develop a database of bio-based products, as part of its involvement in the research project InnProBio (www.innprobio.eu).
The European Commission has launched the Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre with the aim of collecting, structuring and making available a wide range of scientific evidence related to the sector.
This week is Green Week – the EU’s biggest annual event on environment policy – which focuses this year on ‘Green Jobs for a Greener Future’.
The Bio4Products project is employing an innovative conversion technology called fast pyrolysis to transform solid materials like straw and bark into a liquid, which can be used to produce bio-based products. But what exactly is fast pyrolysis, and why is it being used?
The transition towards a ‘bioeconomy’ or ‘bio-based society’ is key to combating resource depletion and climate change.
Filming began for the first Bio4Products promotional video during the recent progress meeting in the Netherlands.
Bio4Products consortium partners met at BTG’s facilities in the Netherlands on 9-10 March for the first project progress meeting.
Already six months into the four year project, partners came together to share and discuss the work carried out so far.
The next meeting will be hosted by Hexion in September 2017.
Back in 2012 the European Parliament recognised the high potential of the bioeconomy sector both for job and wealth creation and to help the EU’s transition to a more sustainable and circular economy.
A new Bio4Products brochure explaining the project objectives is now available to download from the ‘knowledge’ section of the project website.