Bioplastics News
News in brief: March 2019
Burberry’s plastics packaging to be 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025 On the recently launched report New plastics economy global commitment by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Burberry reveals its planned efforts to tackle plastic waste. In the brand’s commitment to use 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable plastic packaging by 2025, Burberry will ensure that that retail bag rain covers [...]
New study by the European Commission assesses the environmental impact of bio-based products in comparison to petrochemical counterparts
The European Commission has published a new study Environmental impact assessments of innovative bio-based products. The study aims at providing science-based facts and evidences on the environmental impacts of bio-based products for comparison with petrochemical plastic counterparts, in order to support the future bioeconomy policy and decision-making at the EU level. The report concludes that for all analysed case studies, [...]
New EU report acknowledges the potential of bio-based plastics to successfully realise the circular economy in Europe
The European Commission has delivered the report A circular economy for plastics, which provides research insights from EU-funded projects to support policy development and funding decisions. The objective is to foster the use of pastics that could circulate with full transparency at high-value usage, while minimising the risks to human health and the environment. The report acknowledges that “bio-based plastics [...]
Member portrait: BioBag Group
Mr Kjell Ivar Bache, CEO of BioBag Group In each issue of the Bioplastics Bulletin, we present five facts about a member of European Bioplastics. This month, Mr Kjell Ivar Bache, CEO of BioBag Group, shares some information on a world-leading company in the development, production, and marketing of certified compostable and biodegradable products. 5 facts about BioBag Group, [...]
14th European Bioplastics Conference: Become a sponsor!
European Bioplastics Conference has been published last month, and we have started receiving highly relevant abstracts for the programme. The conference registration is set to open very soon, but there is no need to wait in line if you would like to make this edition of the conference a special one for your company: as a sponsor, there are many [...]
News in brief: February 2019
Global Plastic Leak Project kicks off to tackle plastic and microplastic leakage Key stakeholders from the private and public sector have become members of the Plastic Leak Project (PLP), which intends to develop robust metrics to locate, measure and map plastic and microplastic pollution across the value chain and define effective actions to fix the problem of plastic leakage into the [...]