Month: March 2019
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Reducing Animal Waste and Bioplastic Skin
Following the trends of last year—when she presented a series of clothing and furniture made of horse hides designer Valdís Steinarsdóttir now tackles the issue of waste generated in the meat and plastic industries.
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Contamination Alert Over Compostable Bioplastic Bags
An explosion in the use of bioplastic bags – aimed at curbing pollution – could contaminate compost made from recycled garden waste in West Sussex. And it could mean the widespread tainting of recycled compost throughout the whole country.
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Plant Based Products Council Launched
The Plant Based Products Council (PBPC) was launched by a group of organisations including companies such as Georgia, Pacific, Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill, working toward more sustainable and responsible consumer products and packaging through greater use of plant-based materials.
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Avantium Will Build Demonstration Plant for Third Technology Program
Avantium has decided to locate the new demonstration plant for its Mekong technology in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
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Mitsubishi Chemical Joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings is first Japanese chemical company to join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100
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New Ingeo PLA for 3D Printing Break-Away Support on Dual Extrusion Printers
PRESS RELEASE – Ingeo 3D450 offers a clean break-away of support structures while delivering excellent precision and printability suitable for complex, professional parts
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Demand for Bioplastics Expected to Surge in China
Demand for biodegradable plastics have surged in China over the last few months due to rising concerns from consumers over the impact plastic products have on the environment.
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Filipino Company Gets Certification for Biodegradable Plastic Products
D&L Industries, Inc. (DNL) joins in on pro-environment efforts by taking a step towards their goal to provide materials that are sustainable and environment-friendly. A unit of the company has received their international certification for biodegradable plastic products.
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Organic Eyeliner, Biodegradable Glitter and Velvet Ribbon (Euronews)
How to take the beauty trends from next season and make them more sustainable? Where there’s a will there’s a way!
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Green Dot Raises $6.5M for Bioplastics Work
Green Dot Bioplastics has raised $6.5 million in funding to develop new materials and increase its production capacity.
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Chinese Press Goes Bioplastics
About 60 per cent of all bioplastics made today are not biodegradable. Plastic production set to more than triple by 2050
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Dakota Rice Corn and Soybean Annual Meeting
Monday evening the Dakota Rice Corn and Soybean Growers held their annual meeting at Jesse James Lanes in Northfield and talked about PLA.
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Braskem Signs Partnership with Join the Pipe for Distribution of Green Plastic Water Bottles
The distribution started in March, and the income generated from marketing the product will be intended for over 300 social projects in developing countries, most of them in Africa and Asia
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Greiner Boss Highlights Role of Packaging in Sustainability
The plastics packaging industry and the entire value chain should join efforts to protect the environment and make the circular economy a reality, according to Manfred Stanek, CEO of Austria-based Greiner Packaging.
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Plastic-Free and Biodegradable Bandages
When it comes to zero waste goals, my first aid kit isn’t even on my list. Some things are best left untouched. But I do make a point of buying fabric bandages instead of plastic. My kids are constantly getting scraped and banged up and, as every parent surely knows, nothing soothes them faster than…
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Biodegradable 3D-printed Mugs Made From Fruit Waste
Biodegradable 3D-printed mugs made from fruit waste. Coffee cups are being grown from fruit by a design company in a bid to cut down on plastic waste.
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Swedish Researcher Makes Bioplastic from Fruit Waste
Even disposable items can be environmentally friendly, as shown by research at the University of Borås into making bioplastic out of fruit waste.
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€2 Billion to Fast Forward the Creation of the European Innovation Council
Ahead of the 21-22 March European Council discussion on innovation, industry and competitiveness, the Commission takes decisive steps to set up a European Innovation Council.
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India Launches Bioplastics Branded Ensabio
Times of India goes Bioplastics and promotes Ensabio
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A&R Carton Launches New Small-Sized Sustainable Boardio Composite Cans
AR Packaging member A&R Carton has introduced new small-sized fiber content composite cans to better meet the requirements of the customers. A&R Carton is providing Boardio composite can in new sizes, which includes fiber content of 90%.
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AmazonBasics PLA 3D Printer Filament Review
For those looking to 3D print on the cheap, AmazonBasics filaments seem to be a perfect solution. But are they really all that good? We got a spool of PLA to test, so let’s find out!
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EPRO Innovation and Sustainability Award Winners Announced at IdentiPlast 2019
The winners of the EPRO Innovation and Sustainability awards were announced at the IdentiPlast gala dinner on 7th March.
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Green Science Alliance Makes Biodegradable Cutlery Using Plastic Waste
Improperly discarded plastic poses a monumental threat to our environment and, specifically, our oceans. In an effort to curb plastic use, many companies are working to develop alternatives to plastics including biodegradable and bioplastic options. Green Science Alliance is one of them.
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Two Local Regional Science Fair Winners Head to International Science Fair in Phoenix
Two regional science fair winners are taking their projects to the International Stage.
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Partnership to Boost Natural Fiber Reinforced Bio-Polymers
Evegreen and Spectalite to form strategic partnership to boost natural fiber reinforced bio-polymers out of Slovenia, Europe
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Is Forbes Anti-Polystyrene?
Two recent studies, one released last month and another that will be published next month, examine the impact of a common plastic, polystyrene, on the gut microbiome of zebrafish.
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FKUR Position Paper: Heading for a Circular Economy with Bioplastics
In a new position paper, FKuR Kunststoff GmbH offers its viewpoint on the use of biobased and biodegradable plastics, and their contribution to a circular economy.
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Jamaica Bio Plastic Wins Total Startupper of the Year Challenge
Founder of Jamaica Bio-Plastic Jordan Freeman, captured the Total Jamaica Startupper of the Year title, for which he was presented with a €12,500 symbolic cheque at an awards ceremony at Courtyard At Marriott Hotel, New Kingston recently. Freeman topped a field of 14 finalists, with Yekini Wallen-Bryan of PreeLabs Limited, earning the second prize of…
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Will Australia Revolutionise the Bioplastics Industry?
Gene-editing sugarcane for use in renewable energy and bio-plastics could help secure the industry’s future.
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Virginia Tech Files Bioplastic Patent Supported by US Government
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, Americans alone, use 100 billion plastic bags every year, but each time, for just 12 minutes on average. Most are not biodegradable and some that are release toxins as they decompose.
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UK Tour Operators Pledge to Move to Biodegradable Brochures
Tour operators have pledged to reduce their environmental impact by delivering brochures in biodegradable wrappers.
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Gardening Company Goes Bioplastics
Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics™ Compost will be using Bioplastics packaging
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An Edible Straw Made of Seaweed Could Soon Replace Polluting Plastic Straws
Loliware, an edible bioplastics company, launched a seaweed straw that dissolves over time as a replacement for plastic straws.
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Biomaterial Made From Sunflowers
With the scientific expertise of the ENSIACET laboratory, studio thomas vailly has investigated for atelier luma, the potential of creating new materials from the by-products of sunflower crops. the project, ‘sunflower enterprise’ explores how sunflower biomatter can be transformed to form a range of new bio-based and biodegradable materials.
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SeaWorld Stops Using Polystyrene
SeaWorld is removing polystyrene foam from its dinnerware in all 12 of its parks, replacing it with 100% recycled material. John Reilly, chief operating officer at SeaWorld, discusses the change and well as park attendance and animals.
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Engineered Microbe May be Key to Producing Plastic From Plants
With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable — but frustratingly untapped — bounty into a replacement for ubiquitous plastics.
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Trader Joe’s Goes Bioplastics
On December 31, 2018, Trader Joe’s announced a plan to focus on more sustainable and environmentally-friendly packaging. The initiative has several goals outlined: “reducing and removing packaging, sourcing renewable and recycled packaging materials, choosing packaging that can be realistically recycled, avoiding the use of harmful substances in packaging, and providing recycling and disposal instructions for…
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Who has the Best CEO: Neste, NatureWorks, Solvay or Basf?
There has been a recent wave of new CEOs in the Bioplastics Industry: NatureWorks, Neste, BASF and Solvay. Let’s look at who’s the best Bioplastics CEO.
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Blue Trends for a Blue Future
Pierre Erwes’ (BioMarine) views on why blue bio plastic could be a game changer.
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Biodegradable-Polymer DES Still Not Better Than Durable DES
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a peripheral or coronary stent placed into narrowed, diseased peripheral or coronary arteries that slowly releases a drug to block cell proliferation.
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Bio-based Monomers Help Upcycle Plastic Bottles
A new recycling process to transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is widely used to make drink bottles and synthetic fibres, can transform the common plastic into a more valuable material with better properties.
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This Biodegradable Planter Could Help Save Forests
Replanting rainforests is laborious and costly, but two Brazilian brothers may have invented a biodegradable planter that can do it all on its own.
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Bioplastics Made With Seawater
A new sustainable biopolymer made from microorganisms and spawned in seawater is aimed at helping to solve the plastic pollution problem.
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Call for Papers For the 14th European Bioplastics Conference
European Bioplastics (EUBP) invites proposals for the 14th European Bioplastics Conference taking place on 3/4 December 2019 at the Titanic Chaussee Hotel in Berlin, Germany.
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Ella’s Kitchen Targets 100% Recyclable Or Compostable Product Packaging By 2024
With the demands of modern parenting, baby food pouches leave some caregivers in a dilemma: Is the quest to feed our children nourishing food while on the go more important than environmental stewardship?
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