This Cluster brings together knowledge and results from EU-funded research and innovation projects on alternative feedstock for bioplastic production. It highlights collaborative efforts to overcome technical, systemic, and market-related challenges across the value chain.

The activities presented here are part of a broader knowledge-sharing initiative led by several projects.

Events

EUBP Talks series on Alternative Feedstock

• From Linear to Circular: Waste Cooking Oils as Feedstock for Polymers and Plastics
• From organic waste to plastic monomers
• From brewery waste to bioplastics: results of the BioSupPack project on new value chains for innovative and sustainable packaging
• Transforming organic waste into bio-succinic acid on a pre-industrial scale
• Solving the lignin conundrum to create scalable, CAPEX-efficient CO2-reduction in the plastics industry
• How can we include alternative feedstocks in a coherent European framework for biobased plastics?

Outputs

• White paper on Alternative Feedstock for bioplastic production (White Paper, 2024)
• Industrial use of agricultural materials as feedstock for biobased plastics (Position Paper, 2025)
• Mass balance approach for the use of biobased feedstock for polymer production (Position Paper, 2023)

Project descriptions

BioSupPack Demonstrative process for the production and enzymatic recycling of environmentally safe, superior and versatile PHA-based rigid packaging solutions by plasma integration in the value chain (Grant agreement No 101023685)

CAFIPLA combines carboxylic acid production and fibre recovery as an innovative, cost-effective and sustainable pre-treatment process for heterogeneous bio-waste

LUCRA provides a sustainable succinic acid production using an integrated electrochemical bioreactor and renewable feedstock

PERCAL creates the chemical building blocks from a versatile Municipal Solid Waste biorefinery

WASTE4SOIL turns food waste into sustainable soil improvers for better soil health and improved food systems

Acknowledgement of funding: The above-mentioned projects are supported by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking and its members. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CBE JU. Neither the European Union nor the CBE JU can be held responsible for them.