Green cleaning: Carbon capture trial fuels hopes of 'carbon negative' detergents

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Green cleaning: Carbon capture trial fuels hopes of 'carbon negative' detergents

New pilot project backed by a number of leading firms aims to demonstrate how captured carbon could be used to produce surfacants for detergents

The detergents industry is taking a small step towards carbon-negative products, thanks to a new carbon capture and usage project called Flue2Chem. It is still at an early stage and the major consumer...

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