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Dear reader,
Below you will find the first 2016 issue of our bimonthly online newsletter, the Bioplastics Bulletin. The Bulletin offers news and insights from the bioplastics industry, relevant policy developments, or new and innovative products and applications.
If you have any questions, comments, or interesting news or topics to share, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards and enjoy the read!
European Bioplastics
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Redesign: New European Bioplastics website launched
You might have noticed the new design of our website, including our bimonthly newsletter, the Bioplastics Bulletin, which now comes in the form of a blog. The new website can be reached at the URL www.european-bioplastics.org. Due to a third party attack a few weeks ago, our website was unavailable for some time. Old links to documents or pages of the old website will unfortunately not work any longer. Yet, we used the chance to give our website a new look and brush up the content. The redesign is not finalised yet and we will continue to improve the design, fix bugs, and expand on the features of the new website in the coming weeks and months. We apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused and thank you for your patience.
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Bio-based plastics play an essential role in the future circular plastics economy
The recent report by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation on ‘The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics’ provides an overarching vision of a global circular plastics economy in which bioplastics play an essential role in decoupling the economy from fossil resources and help to return nutrients to the soil. European Bioplastics welcomes the report and its vision, which aligns with the principles of the circular economy and outlines concrete steps on how plastics never [...]
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Save the date for the 11th European Bioplastics Conference on 29/30 November 2016 in Berlin
Following on from the successful events of the past years that reflected the growing confidence in plastics solutions that are bio-based, biodegradable, or both as a viable alternative to conventional plastics, the 11th European Bioplastics Conference has now been confirmed to take place on 29/30 November 2016 at the Steigenberger Hotel Berlin, Germany.
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French decree supports bio-based and home-compostable bags
The new wording of the French implementation decree on single-use plastic bags, which was published by the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy on 1 February 2016, sets out clear requirements for the reduction of single-use plastic bags in favour of bio-based, biodegradable and home-compostable bags, in line with the EU Directive. Single-use plastic bags will be forbidden at cash registers in France as of 1 July 2016. From 1 January 2017 on, single-use plastic bags for other uses than at the cash register, including fruit and vegetable bags, that are below a thickness of 50 microns, will have be home-compostable and feature a bio-based content of at least 30 percent.
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Member portrait: ISCC System GmbH
In each issue of the Bioplastics Bulletin, we present 5 facts about a member of European Bioplastics. In this issue, Dr Norbert Schmitz, Managing Director of ISCC Systems GmbH shares some information about his certification system.
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The benefits of separate organic waste collection
Since January 2015, separate collection of organic waste is mandatory in Germany. The implementation, however, has been rather slow, and not all municipalities provide separate biowaste collection schemes yet. The German association for compostable products ‘Verbund kompostierbare Produkte e.V.’ therefore recently called for municipalities to implement the separate collection of biowaste and support the use of compostable biowaste bags for the collection of organic waste in households. Even though the use of these bags is explicitly allowed in the German Organic Waste Regulation, many waste companies and municipalities are hesitant to accept these solutions. A quick glance at Italy, however, will prove those hesitations to be unfounded.
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New products and innovations
- Certified bio-based and compostable coffee capsule for Nespresso systems
- IKEA one step closer to becoming carbon negative
- New biomedical polymers produced from microorganisms
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In Brief
- Tetra Pak to deliver 100m plant-based packs in 2016
- Corbion to open new PLA plant in 2018
- Bio-based film for use in solar control window films
- Anellotech and Suntory develop 100% bio-based bottle
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