Bioplastics Sold as Being Not Plastics

Here’s what I found on LinkedIn.

Sans plastique … without plastic

Here’s what I found on their website

When you click on this image, you get ….

PLA containers … I thought PLA was compostable but not biodegradable ?

Looking further on their website:

“Tous les produits proposés par Compos’Table sont biodégradables et compostables et sont donc certifiés selon la norme européenne EN-13432 et OK Compost par VINCOTTE”

Translation

All the products offered by Compos’Table are biodegradable and compostable and are therefore certified according to European standard EN-13432 and OK Compost by VINCOTTE

Again …. biodegradable and compostable is not the same.

Not the first time Bioplastics branded as Plastic-free

• Tea Company Claims PLA is Not Plastic
• Tipa Bioplastics Branded As Plastic-Free in the UK

Questions

Can we brand bioplastics as being Plastic-free; not made from plastics or without plastics?

Can we brand a bioplastics product that is (commercially / home) compostable as being biodegradable?

What do you think?

Are there any rules that says we cannot?

What about the company that gave the “compostable certificate” … in this case the Belgian company Vincotte (Now called TUV Austria). Are they responsible to rectify such practice or not?

What do you think?

REFS

• Compos-table.fr