Forbes

Mass Balance As A Catalyst For Sustainability

We all understand the concept of a hybrid vehicle. Unlike an electric vehicle (EV) that is totally powered by electricity, a hybrid vehicle runs on both fossil fuels and electricity. Hybrid vehicles ...
Nature

Estimation of nutrient loads with the use of mass-balance and modelling approaches on the Wełna River catchment example (central Poland)

Nitrogen and phosphorus budgeting is considered to be a key tool for policy makers and stakeholders when dealing with nutrient contamination issues, however no unified method has been employed in ...
Nature

Submarine groundwater discharge and associated fluxes along the Kanyakumari coast of India using radon and nutrient mass balance approach

Kanyakumari district lies in the southernmost part of the Indian subcontinent at the coast of Indian Ocean, between latitude 8˚10’ and 8˚15’N and longitude 77˚10’ and 77˚20’E (Fig. 1). This area ...
Recycling Today

ACC’s Plastics Division releases mass balance certification principles

The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC’s) Plastics Division has announced a set of principles for mass balance certification standards that are designed to trace and help increase plastics recycling as ...
Recycling Today

Advocacy groups question ‘green’ label for coal in steel production

Coalition of 30 nonprofit groups says a Japanese request to use a “mass balance” approach to calculate carbon in steel should be rejected. The organizations skeptical of the “mass balance” approach ...
JEC Composites

Huntsman’s european polyurethanes plants achieve mass balance certification

ISCC PLUS is a global sustainability certification system that makes it possible to track the amount and sustainability characteristics of circular and/or bio-based content in the value chain and ...
C&EN

Perstorp leads push for tighter mass balance rules

Four Swedish organizations are pushing the International Organization for Standardization to use what they call traceable mass balance as a basis for standardizing the mass balance method of making ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Nitrates: An Environmental Assessment

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JEC Composites

Mitsui Chemicals and Teijin to market biomass-derived BPA and polycarbonate resins

In the ISCC PLUS-certified mass-balance approach, materials are verifiably tracked through complex value chains, as in the case of biomass-derived raw materials being mixed with petroleum-derived raw ...
C&EN

Lego opts for mass balance plastic

Lego is steadily replacing virgin fossil fuels with biobased oil or recycled oil made from used plastic as the raw material for its acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) toy bricks. The firm is ...
JD Supra

Can Companies Use “Mass Balance Accounting” to Substantiate Green Claims?

The International Bottled Water Association (or “IBWA”) challenged over 50 express and implied claims by Boxed Water is Better (or “BWIB”), suggesting that boxed water is better for the environment.