Author: Editor
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The business case for producing less plastic
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Biodiversity credit initiatives face rising scrutiny, scepticism
Biodiversity, carbon and plastic credits are just clever scam to enrich bold people. These initiatives were brought to you by…
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EU project does deep dive into EU policy shaping framework for fossil-free chemicals
EU pays to receive policy recommendation from the industry. So why do we have MEPs and assistants?
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Enhancing compatibility and biodegradability of PLA/biomass composites via forest residue torrefaction
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Europe missing out on the potential of bio-waste with almost 75% ending up in landfills or incinerated
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Using sunlight to recycle black plastics
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ExxonMobil to expand advanced recycling capacity
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Itero receives permit for chemical recycling plant
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What role should chemical recycling play in the UN Plastics Treaty? (Itero)
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Scientists warn of ‘invisible threat’ of microplastics as global treaty nears completion
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W-Cycle and Melhoramentos Join Forces to Produce Compostable Food Containers
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President Nexe Innovations video interview
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A laser-based saturated-absorption cavity ring-down technology for precise biobased content analysis of plastic samples
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Bye-Bye microplastics: Japanese researchers develop plastic that dissolves into the sea
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Turning table scraps into biodegradable, single-use plastics
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Eastman’s Bioplastic Foam Aces Tests
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Hong Kong Agricultural Biotechnology Report
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China Used Cooking Oils Export Tax Rebate Terminated (Report)
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Biden administration unveils national strategy to strengthen efforts to reduce plastic waste
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Can world leaders agree on a circular plastics economy amid conflicting national interests?
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Are There Alternatives to Plastics?
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Nano-Scale Insights into the Optimization of Bioplastic Blends
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Plastics can take hundreds of years to break down. This Wisconsin company’s biodegradable film aims to change that
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Plastic bag bans: Studies reveal divergent impacts in EU and US as campaigners call for harsher measures
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The EU plastic facts report
The European plastics industry has been hijacked by corrupted lobbyists and criminal organisations and run a system to divert taxpayer…
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South Korea Agricultural Biotechnology report
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Malaysia Biofuels report
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Japan Biofuels Report
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Prism Worldwide raises $40M in Series A, A1 funding
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Can the World Unite to End the Plastic Pollution Crisis? (Bloomberg)
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Scientists develop ‘environmentally friendly’ plastic that dissolves in sea water
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Greenpeace, WWF, Break Free from Plastic deliver almost 3 million signatures demanding strong Global Plastics Treaty
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Insights into the photoaging behavior of biodegradable and nondegradable microplastics: spectroscopic and molecular characteristics of dissolved organic matter release
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Bioplastics start-ups gain ground but green credentials face scrutiny (Financial Times)
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Paper cups are toxic for your (video)
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How vaporizing plastics could be key to saving a failing recycling industry
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BIOntier project studies multi-sector biocomposites development
The EU institutions seem to have too much money that they have to give taxpayer money to big plastic conglomerates.
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Inside Indian or Pakistani compostable plastic bag plant (Video)
You’re an American investor, you have invested in the Indian or Pakistani compostable plastic bag industry but you’ve actually never…
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Bioplastic solution for Indian monsoon season
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A New Biodegradable Plastic Might Change the World
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Revalyu Resources successfully commissions second plant of world’s largest chemical PET-plastic recycling site
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China Agricultural Biotechnology Annual report
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $20.2 Million in Projects to Advance Development of Mixed Algae for Biofuels and Bioproducts
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How Malaysia destroyed its forest for the so-called green and renewable revolution
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Sugar World Markets and Trade report
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COP needs to curb on fossil fuel lobbying
That’s hypocrisy … what it should say: COP needs to curb on industry lobbying. Since when has the UN become…
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Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP29?
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White House Releases Report on Growing U.S. Biomanufacturing Capacity for the American Bioeconomy
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Is US pulling back from production caps in plastics treaty?
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Improving the performance of polylactic acid/polypropylene/cotton stalk fiber composites with epoxidized soybean oil as a high efficiency plasticizer
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CJ Biomaterials Completes Trials of New PHACT PHA Grade for use by Straw Manufacturers Seeking Marine Degradability Certification
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Japanese manicurist turns sea trash into nail art
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Miami-Dade commission approve ban on plastic
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Antimicrobial biodegradable blown films from PBAT/TPS with Glucono-delta-lactone as acid regulator active packaging
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New long-term collaboration between Suzano and University of Cambridge
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Riding the 2024 COPs wave: Ocean issues connect everything
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Xampla CEO: Accelerating the natural polymer transition through INC-5
I had sympathy for Xampla, but their PR agency is really annoying. Ladies and gentleman, sometimes it’s wise to take…
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How Southeast Asian countries are positioning themselves at COP29
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EUBP Comment on Plastic Treaty update
I would literally not pay too much attention to what European Bioplastics has to say on the plastic treaty. European…
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BioMADE Announces $26.9 Million Invested in 17 Projects Supporting U.S. Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovations and Workforce Development
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Analysis of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation commitment report
Call it as you want; it’s greenwashing. Ellen MacArthur has made us lost many years in the fight against plastic…
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The Ellen MacArthur Global Commitment annual report 2024
How one woman, Ellen MacArthur, was able to get the United Nations, governments, the WEF and the industry together to…
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Sinclair and Zespri Present Compostable Labels for Produce
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Reengineering photosynthesis
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Germany Agricultural Biotechnology Annual
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CCU yields ‘breakthrough’ PHA / Same properties as virgin plastics claimed
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Danimer Scientific Q3 2024 results are really bad
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Odisha Startup Tackles Environmental And Food Waste Challenges With Bioplastics
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University of Liverpool and University of Georgia partner on Bioplastics
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Graphene Gives PET Bottles a Lightweighting Boost and More
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Improving water barrier properties of starch based bioplastics by lignocellulosic biomass addition: Synthesis, characterization and antibacterial properties
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Welsh Government announces withdrawal from UK-wide deposit return scheme
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MetGen integration with NewEnergyBlue will create full array of biochemicals refined from agricultural waste
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Futamura provides compostable packaging for Vicentini tea bags
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New patent filing numbers record-breaking for bioplastics and plastics recycling innovation
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Researchers create a bioplastic that dissolves in water (Canadian Plastics)
This research has already been covered on BPN but I publish another article about it because it seems to have…
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Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Bio-Based Materials
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The global economy is forecast to grow solidly in 2025 thanks to Donald Trump (Goldman Sachs)
The sheriff is back in town and many economic operators seem to trust Trump’s economic and geopolitical policies. In the…
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Science Minister Lord Vallance visits Kelpi
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Napa County poised to require food providers to use reusable or compostable foodware
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OK Compost article in The Mirror
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Biodegradable and conventional mulches inhibit nitrogen fixation by peanut root nodules – potentially related to microplastics in the soil
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Bixby International Partners with Rheom Materials to Scale Production of Biobased Leather Alternative, Shorai
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US Government Accountability Office report on Bioplastics
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New method holds potential to efficiently recycle widely used polyester plastics
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Synthesis of lignin-based elastomers via ARGET ATRP: Exceptional mechanical strength, adhesion, and self-repair properties
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IDTechEx article on bioplastics
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SOSE Research on Bioplastics from Discarded Crab Shells Featured in International Science News
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Chemical recycling patents surge as demand grows
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EUBP welcomes the inclusion of soil-biodegradable products in the Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR)
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BioPTMG, a Plant-Derived Polyurethane Raw Material, Now Used in Bio-Synthetic Leather Bags and Other Products
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Uncovering novel polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis genes and unique pathway in yeast hanseniaspora valbyensis for sustainable bioplastic production
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Sway in the press
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UPM, Selenis and Bormioli Pharma introduce the world’s first pharmaceutical bottle partially made with wood-based plastics
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Growing concerns about plastic mulch in Canada
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The inconvenient truth about 3D printing with bioplastics
Are 3D printing professionals turning their back from PLA?
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Plastic Energy on Plastic treaty
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PhaBuilder brews better bioplastics with extremophile bacteria
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Donald Trump is president. What does it mean for climate change?
Climate change is organic; it’s not influenced by human activity. The biggest polluters on the planet and corrupted politicians tried…
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Sabic and Plastic Energy NL chemical recycling plant starts operations
Latest reports
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Bio-on and Danimer Scientific: The Short Sellers Who Worked Together
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Danimer Scientific: Short Sellers, Class Actions and the Collapse of a PHA Pioneer
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Iraq Trucks Oil Through Syria to Bypass Strait of Hormuz
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Bio-on Founder Challenges Conviction Ahead of Appeal
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European Bioplastics and Novamont: Inside the Campaign Against a Competing Plastics Technology