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Biodegradables and material recycling – a paradox?

2025-02-20T11:20:26+01:004 February 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document Biodegradables are sortable and suitable for material recycling streams. Efficient sorting of all plastics is essential for high quality recycling outputs. Biodegradable plastics have the potential to play a significant role in advancing a circular economy by addressing several environmental challenges. They can help mitigate plastic waste, promote sustainable resource utilisation, enhance [...]

European Bioplastics call to recognise the role of the bioplastics industry as an enabler to achieve the European Green Deal transformation

2025-02-04T11:10:27+01:004 February 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document Dear President von der Leyen, We are writing to express our sincere congratulations to the new College of Commissioners for the legislative term 2024-2029. We warmly welcome the clarity and determination with which you have outlined the political guidelines of the European Commission. At such a complex time in history, [...]

Progress and Challenges at INC-5 Negotiations in Busan

2025-03-14T14:46:07+01:0019 December 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea, aimed to finalise a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty but ended without consensus. Due to major divergences around key elements of the future Treaty, the session has been extended to INC-5.2, with the date and location still to be determined. Key [...]

Recycling technologies for bioplastics: What is next? Side Event to the EBC24 on the 9 December 2024

2024-12-20T09:23:18+01:0012 December 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As the bioplastics market grows, it is essential to address the issue of recycling biodegradable bioplastics and to study their most effective recycling pathways, to be able to manage bioplastic products at their end of life. Bioplastic waste does not yet constitute a relevant amount of the total plastic waste (being only 1% in [...]

Alternative feedstock for biobased plastics: Bridging the gap between research and the market (White Paper)

2025-03-25T12:45:33+01:009 December 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document As the bioplastics market grows*, it is essential to address the issue of recycling biodegradable bioplastics and to study their most effective recycling pathways, to be able to manage bioplastic products at their end of life. Bioplastic waste does not yet constitute a relevant amount of the total plastic waste [...]

Alternative feedstock for biobased plastics: Bridging the gap between research and the market (White Paper)

2025-03-25T12:53:05+01:0030 November 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document Millions of tonnes of biowaste, particularly urban organic food waste, inundate European waste management systems yearly. However, approximately 60% of this resource currently finds its way to incineration or landfills, resulting in significant environmental and economic losses. At the workshop held on 16 October 2024 at European Bioplastics in Brussels, [...]

End-of-life options for bioplastic products

2024-11-22T11:12:52+01:0022 November 2024|Tags: , , , , , , |

Open the document The properties of the wide range of bioplastic materials make them suitable to be used in a large variety of applications. Bioplastics play an important role in achieving environmental goals such as providing a lower carbon footprint products compared to fossil-based plastics, and additional end-of-life options. This position paper covers [...]

White Paper on Upcycling Food and Drinks Packaging: How EU-funded research projects transform food and drink packaging to reduce waste

2025-03-25T12:44:17+01:001 October 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document In 2021, EU consumers spent €1,551 billion on food and drink, underscoring the sector’s economic significance. The food and drink industry, with a turnover of €1,112 billion in 2023, leads EU manufacturing and global exports. However, its reliance on plastic packaging has led to significant environmental challenges. The average European [...]

Biogenic carbon accounting in the Product Environmental Footprint

2024-09-25T14:54:46+02:0012 September 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document We have been closely following the review of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and would like to express our gratitude to the European Commission for their diligent efforts in consulting with industry. We support the work of the DG-ENV and JRC on carbon modelling and want to acknowledge the challenges [...]

Anaerobic Digestion of certified compostable products

2024-06-20T12:02:07+02:0011 June 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Open the document Industrially compostable plastics play an essential role in putting the envisioned circular economy into practice. With reference to the European waste hierarchy, industrially compostable plastics provide added value through organic recycling. This includes both industrial composting and anaerobic digestion. Certified industrially compostable plastic products such as biowaste bags or fresh [...]

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