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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Commission has unveiled proposals for chemical recycling that adopt a "fuel-use excluded" mass-balance accounting approach under the Single Use Plastics Directive. This methodology will ...

Washington — A new federal government report is calling for national standards around a "mass balance" approach to measuring recycled content in plastics made from chemical recycling, saying it would ...

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 ...