Berlin, 10th of November - With just three weeks to go, preparations are progressing for the 21st European Bioplastics Conference (EBC26), taking place on the 1st-2nd of December 2026 at the Titanic Hotel Berlin and online. Organised by European Bioplastics (EUBP), the conference will bring together industry leaders from across the bioplastics value chain, [...]
Brussels, 3 November 2026 – European Bioplastics welcomes the approval by the National Members of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) of four Technical Specifications addressing the Design for Recycling of packaging made of biodegradable plastics. The specifications support the implementation of Article 6 of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and [...]
Microplastics and their potential environmental and health impacts have been of growing concern in recent years. However, certified biodegradable plastics can be part of the solution, as they are designed to biodegrade and mineralise rather than persist as microplastics in the environment [...] Certified biodegradable plastics are part of the solution to persistent microplastics. The [...]
Open the document The proceedings of the EUBP side event to the EBC 25 conference focused on the "Bioplastic Packaging Design: Safe, Sustainable and Recyclable". The key question was how to design bioplastic packaging that is safe, sustainable, recyclable, and compliant. Five projects have been funded in 2025 under a specific call of [...]
Presentations “Rethink the circularity of your products!" From Biodegradability to Recyclability: Innovators prove you can have both. A challenging legal framework is asking packaging producers to rethink their products. The EmpCo Directive makes standalone 'biodegradable' claims illegal without verified evidence of excellent environmental performance. The PPWR mandates all packaging be recyclable by 2030 [...]
Industrial Accelerator Act: Turning Europe's biobased ambitions into an industrial business case Key Messages: • Turn recognition into market pull measures. The IAA rightly recognises biobased plastics, polymers and chemicals as strategic lead markets, but this must be translated into concrete and timely demand-side measures that create predictable demand needed to scale up European [...]
UPM Circular Renewable Black™ is the world's first bio-based, NIR-detectable, carbon-negative* black pigment, built to end the recycling standoff around black plastic packaging. Conventional carbon black pigments block near-infrared (NIR) detection, making black items invisible to sorting systems. This has forced brands to choose between iconic black design and circularity, pushing black packaging out [...]
TripleW is transforming bioplastics production by addressing both sugar feedstock supply and post-consumer end-of-life upcycling. Historically, petrochemical refineries extracted underground crude oil to build the modern materials economy. Today, conventional PLA production relies on virgin food crops like corn and sugarcane. TripleW rewrites this narrative by treating organic food waste as the new petroleum [...]
Sustainea's Bio-MEG is produced through a one-step catalytic process that converts corn-derived dextrose directly into a bio-based monoethylene glycol chemically identical to its fossil counterpart. Validated across thousands of operating hours at demonstration scale, the process has been engineered for high yield and selectivity. A preliminary life cycle assessment projects Bio-MEG as carbon-negative on [...]
After reading about microplastics released from plastic cutting boards during use, 21-year-old Wessel Schönekerl started looking for alternatives. But every existing option came with its own disadvantages. Wooden boards require maintenance and are not dishwasher-safe, while glass boards are easy to clean but quickly dull kitchen knives. That raised a simple question: could a [...]
