Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is basically the only tool we currently have for making comparisons between products from an environmental point of view. The development of LCA tools started more than 30 ...
The plastics industry has experienced major shifts in recent years mainly due to increasing awareness of the harmful effects that plastic has on the environment. As a result, there has been a rising ...
At the beginning of this year, the European Commission published its EU Roadmap for a Strategy on Plastics in a Circular Economy. In the Roadmap, the Commission has given priority to assess how to ...
Claiming a product to be bio-based is always a critical topic. Everybody would agree that, if a product is not entirely made from renewable resources, the percentage of the bio-based content should ...
The global bioplastics market is booming – total production capacity is set to grow 400% by 2017, and the European Commission has designated bioplastics as a lead market.
In early November a new proposal by the European Commission (EC) to amend the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPDW) caused quite some excitement throughout the industry. This ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued new Green Guides, on Environmental Marketing Claims to help marketers avoid deceptive environmental claims [1-3]. Previous versions of the ...
Introducing new, environmentally friendly materials such as bioplastics in the market appears to be a challenge for a large number of, predominantly, young and small companies. Although the ...
Bioplastics constitute a new class of plastic materials at a very early stage of market penetration. As with other new technologies, the existing legislation is often not consistent with the ...
The ongoing efforts to divert material from landfill have led many Canadian municipalities to look at composting or anaerobic digestion as a viable waste management option. This includes leaf and ...
In the late eighties and early nineties new biopolymers on the basis of starch or polyhydroxyalkanoates produced by fermentation were first introduced onto the market.
Whilst the first examples of biodegradable and compostable packaging started to appear on UK supermarket shelves as far back as 2001, there has been a very marked increase over the past two years, ...
NatureWorks LLC is committed to producing polymers from annually renewable resources, which meet the world‘s needs of today without compromising the earth‘s ability to meet the needs of tomorrow.
Australians are among the world’s best in plastics recycling and retailers are becoming more and more focused on a sustainable future. Yet the world’s non-renewable energy sources are depleting at an ...
In France, the companies involved in bioplastics are united in a national organization named ‘Club Bio-plastiques’. It is the Association Française Pour Le développement des Bio-plastiques.
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