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Tato Bigio Wins Meaningful Business 100 Award

The Meaningful Business 100 (MB100) Award recognizes and celebrates global leaders who are combining profit and purpose to help achieve the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The award celebrates individuals working across different sectors, roles, geographies, and causes. Recipients include outstanding and purpose-driven corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, impact investors, and sustainability experts who are deemed […]

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USDA BioPreferred: What Does the Label Mean?

Created by the 2002 Farm Bill and most recently reauthorized and expanded as part of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, the BioPreferred Program is designed to increase the purchase and use of biobased products. Under the management of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the program’s goal is to encourage economic development, create new […]

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How Biobased Materials Add Value to Products

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced its BioPreferred Program in the 2002 Farm Bill, its stated goal was to compel federal agencies to explore ways to source at least some of the goods they purchased from biobased materials.

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Solving the Plastic Pollution Challenge

Plastic waste—and the mismanagement of its disposal—has proven highly detrimental to people and the planet.

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Plastic Recycling Technology: What are the Environmental…

There are seven types of plastics produced globally, but only two can be recycled. As a result, a paltry nine percent of plastic is being recycled.

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Biobased Plastics vs. Biodegradable Plastics

Throughout industrial history, significant economic gains have been made through the intensive use of non-renewable resources, including fossil-fuels. Today, with those resources diminishing and becoming increasingly expensive to extract, bio-based materials such as bioplastics are considered a sustainable alternative solution. The demand for bio-based plastics that incorporate vegetable material in their manufacturing has dramatically increased […]

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Zero Waste Technology

High-Tech Trash: How Does Zero Waste Technology…

A shift to a technology-based, data-driven model enables public works departments to achieve greater operational efficiency, deliver better customer service, and be a part of the zero waste movement. Together with manufacturers committed to zero waste, they can drive the world towards long-term sustainability goals. What is Zero Waste Technology? Let’s start with what zero […]

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Alternative Plastic Materials

What Are Alternative Plastic Materials?

There are just under 325 million people living in the U.S. Each day they collectively throw out enough garbage to fill 63,000 garbage trucks.

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Landfills: Causes, Effects and Solutions

Landfills: Causes, Effects and Solutions

There are just under 325 million people living in the U.S. Each day they collectively throw out enough garbage to fill 63,000 garbage trucks.

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UBQ Materials at K2019

We’ve got a full house here at K2019! Proud to see the level of interest and excitement around Innovation and Sustainability in the Plastic Industry.

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How the World Can Solve Its 2-Billion-Ton Trash Problem

How the World Can Solve Its 2-Billion-Ton…

Bloomberg discusses the alarming effects of the world’s trash problem.

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UBQ Profile Movie

UBQ Profile Movie

Enjoy a virtual visit to UBQ.

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Henrique Cymerman at UBQ

Henrique Cymerman at UBQ

Tato Bigio, CEO of UBQ Materials, welcomed Henrique Cymerman, the SIC Portugal correspondent in the Middle East and introduced him the process of domestic waste conversion into the plastic products that do not pollute the environment and are at the same time useful. The “UBQ Materials” does not reveal the factory’s secret of the transformation […]

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Carbon is not the Enemy

Carbon is not the Enemy

In the right place, carbon is a resource and a tool.

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Climate Change Refugees

Climate Change Refugees

Another kind of refugee is starting to emerge: climate change refugees. This does not make it on the front page of major news outlets.

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Debunking Common Myths

Debunking Common Myths

Written by Stop Trashing the Climate

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New Plastics Economy

New Plastics Economy

The New Plastics Economy Report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, outlines a blueprint for a more environmentally friendly plastics system.

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Two Great Products, Two Great Brands

Two Great Products, Two Great Brands

These companies show us we don’t have to sacrifice quality for sustainability.

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Food Waste

Food Waste

Around 50 percent of all produce in the United States is thrown away— $160 billion worth of produce annually.

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Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods

Food production accounts for as much global greenhouse gas emissions as all forms of transport combined.

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