EUBP Talk #3: From brewery waste to bioplastics: results of the BioSupPack project on new value chains for innovative and sustainable packaging

The third talk of our EUBP Talk series on Alternative Feedstocks is entitled “From brewery waste to bioplastics: results of the BioSupPack project on new value chains for innovative and sustainable packaging” and focuses on the valorisation of both by-products from the agri-food industry and different types of waste and their key role in the improvement of sustainability.

BioSupPack aims at upscaling new, economically convenient and highly-performing biobased rigid packaging solutions based on PHA, also suitable for being recycled and recovered. The BBI-funded project will contribute to the creation of a new bio-cluster/value chain connecting several sectors (i.e. agri-food, bioplastics, pulp and paper, and packaging). The project is exploring, at lab-scale and pilot level and then at large scale, the possibility of using brewery industry by-products (brewer’s spent grains) as a fermentation feedstock for PHB production.