Metabolic Engineering of Yeast for Dicarboxylic Acid Production – an Important Intermediate in the ACTPAC Project
What is metabolic engineering? The focus of metabolic engineering are biochemical pathways. Pathways describe a sequence of reactions within a cell to build up a product that is a
ACTPAC consortium in Utrecht, The Netherlands
The second in-person ACTPAC consortium meeting took place on April 24–25 in the beautiful city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, with 22 scientists in attendance. The event was gracio
New dual-catalyst system turns plastic waste into gasoline
Polyethylene (PE) is everywhere, but less than 1% of PE waste is recycled into valuable products. Most of it ends up in landfills, incinerators or the environment, creating a serio
A new chemical plastic recycling reactor reduces energy consumption by 50%.
The article describes a new technology for chemical plastic recycling developed in the doctoral thesis of Alberto Frisa Rubio at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT). Thi
A retrospective of ACTPAC in 2024
By the end of 2024, the ACTPAC project will have successfully completed its first year since its launch on January 1, 2024. A total of seven Ph.D. students or postdoctoral research
ACTPAC In Sustainable Packaging Summit 2024, Amsterdam
At the recent Sustainable Packaging Summit 2024 in Amsterdam, Professor Zheng Guo, presented ACTPAC’s solutions to upcycle C-C backboned plastic wastes. Dive into this article to
Polyester biodegradability: importance and potential for optimisation
The existing polyolefin plastics are not adequately suited for closed-loop recycling; however, biodegradable plastics may prove an effective solution to the accumulation of plastic
Global Plastics Industry
The global plastics industry, based on economic indicators, has revealed a massive market size of 400 billion euros [1]. To create this great potential, tons of plastic raw materia
Catalytic hydrocracking and hydrogenolysis of PE into alkanes
Hydrogenolysis and hydrocracking [1] are attractive polymer upcycling methods to produce low molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons with narrow molecular weight distributions under r
Engineered yeast converts waste plastic pyrolysis oil into valuable α,ω-diacids with high efficiency
The accumulation of plastic waste is a significant environmental issue, with traditional disposal methods posing health and ecological risks. The study by Yeo et al., published in