Category: Biodegradation & Composting
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Compostable Food Containers May be Leaching PFAS
Composting and compostable food packaging have become an environmentally friendly trend that aids in reducing waste that would eventually go to a landfill or be incinerated, but it may not be all that it’s cut out to be, according to new research.
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Australian Firm Gets Oxo-Biodegradable Trademark
A small Australian company has received approval for the nation’s first certified trademark for oxo-biodegradable plastic products.
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Your Biodegradable Bag Might Not Degrade As Fast As You Think
Article and video published on Mashable.com
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Can Plastic Be Biodegradable? New Study Suggests the Jury is Out
Anyone with an interest in green, eco-conscious living knows that plastic has become a major environmental concern in recent years.
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Compostable Food Packaging may Contaminate Compost
US research flags presence of potentially hazardous substances leaching from takeaway containers. Andrew Masterson reports. Additives used to make allegedly bio-friendly takeaway contains waterproof and oil-repellent have been found in compost.
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Scientists Create Bioplastic for Food Packaging Which Degrades in Two Years
A group of scientists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Lithuania have created biodegradable plastic, which decomposes in a compost bin in a couple of years. Bioplastic created at KTU is transparent and all the materials in its composition are suitable for contact with food.
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Towards Greener Plastics
Researchers and companies are working on new kinds of biodegradable packaging, bottles and other products that break down like compost.
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The Indy Racetrack Balloon Fiasco
Indy 500 balloon release: IMS says the balloons are biodegradable. We tested them.
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The Debate: Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Bags
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Plymouth, designed to provide insights into the environmental deterioration of plastic bags made from different polymer types, has been the subject of some dispute.
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Biodegradable Products Open New Market
DURBAN – Innovation is a wonderful thing. A case in point would be the dinky biodegradable miniature pots with fresh herbs offered by Checkers stores nationwide last year as a shopping incentive.
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University of Plymouth Admits Mistake in Biodegradable and Compostable Bags Study
The University of Plymouth has admitted to a ‘discrepancy’ regarding compostables in its study which found biodegradable plastic bags remained functional in soil or marine environments for three years.
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European Bioplastics Doesn’t Agree With University of Plymouth Study
European Bioplastics doesn’t seem to fully agree with the recent study that everyone is talking about.
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Biodegradable Plastic Bags Survive Three Years in Soil
Biodegradable plastic bags can still carry shopping three years after being left in a natural environment.
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The Battle Between Oregon Composters and the Biodegradable Products Institute
A Message from the Oregon Composters and the Reply from the Biodegradable Products Institute.
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Shake Shack Moving to Biodegradable Straws
Soon, all U.S. Shake Shacks will eschew the standard straw in service of sustainability, instead importing boxes of biodegradable yet acceptable alternatives. That’s all I’ve got, no more intentional alliteration, I solemnly swear.
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Biodegradable Food Trays for Woodland Students Won’t be Cheap
The trays would cost around $32,000 more per year
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If it Says Biodegradable, It Might not be Compostable
Washington state is getting new rules on compostable bags and cutlery under House Bill 1569, one of a handful of bills that passed in Olympia to clean up our trash, recycling and compost.
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Using Camel Cricket Bacteria to Degrade Plastic
A micro-organism discovered in greenhouse camel crickets can degrade lignin from wood, say researchers in the US. The new finding, which kickstarted thanks to a citizen science project, could help in the quest to find other organisms that break down different types of polluting waste, such as plastic.
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What is the Difference Between Biodegradable, Compostable and OXO Biodegradable?
Let’s look at the Difference Between Biodegradable, Compostable and OXO Degradable plastics.
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Cape Town Start-Up Launches World’s First Biodegradable Cigarette
It turns out the world’s obsession with plastic is far from over. Yes, we’re aware of the global plastic straw crusade going on at the moment – which in itself seems a tad overdue – but cigarette filters? SURELY they converted the world’s biggest form of litter to something biodegradable ages ago? Nope, they didn’t.…
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Landfill Reduction Efforts Drive Growth for Biodegradable Bags
Food packaging will remain the dominant market for biodegradable films
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Compostable Cup Sales Soar, but Greens Say is it Enough?
Packaging that breaks down to compost sounds like a no-brainer, but there is opposition
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Largs Scientist Makes ‘Global Discovery’ That Could Save Our Oceans – By Accident
A LARGS scientist has helped to create a plastic-eating enzyme which could revolutionise recycling across the world.
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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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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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Indonesians Invent Drinkable Bioplastics Bags
A group of Indonesians have invented a mind blowing eco-friendly biodegradable bag, that one can reuse, or even dissolve and drink.
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Is Biodegradable Always Environment-Friendly?
Bioplastic sounds like a welcome eco-alternative to the many plastic products we use daily. But the reality isn’t so simple.
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South Africa First Biodegradable Cup
Cape Town entrepreneur Luvuyo Ndiki will launch South Africa’s first biodegradable drinking cup made from sugar cane and corn starch in May.
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How to Recycle Biodegradable Coffee Cups?
Just 0.25 % of the 2.5 billion cups disposed of annually in the UK are recycled.
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Single-use Plastics Directive Fails to Acknowledge Potential of Biodegradable Plastics
PRESS RELEASE – Berlin, 20 December 2018 – The European institutions have reached an agreement on a directive to curb the use of a number of single-use plastic products in the EU, which aims to prevent and reduce marine litter of these products.
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A New Biodegradable Expanded Polystyrene
Integritemp (Plastilite) announced a patent-pending ReFoam, an expanded polystyrene (EPS) product that is oxo-biodegradable and recyclable.
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Bioplastics Plant Pots Now Available
500 million plastic plant pots are used every year in the UK. British gardener have an average of 39 plastic plant pots.
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Student Turns Vegetable Oil Into Biodegradable Plastics
Student startup turns vegetable oil into renewable fuels and biodegradable plastics
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BASF Goes For Biodegradable Cosmetics
BASF introduces two biodegradable alternatives to cosmetic ingredients.
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NAFIGATE, the new generation of Cosmetics products based on the Hydal P3HB
PRESS RELEASE – Prague, October 10, 2018 – Cosmetics, which poses the circular revolution in the cosmetics industry, was introduced for the first time on Wednesday October 10th.
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PepsiCo and Danimer Scientific Win the 2018 Innovation in Bioplastics Award
The Plastics Industry Association in Washington awarded Danimer Scientific and PepsiCo as the joint winners of the 2018 Innovation in Bioplastics Award.
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Irish Find a Way To Compost PLA at Home
Ireland-based researchers develop a new PLA bioplastic that can biodegrade under home-composting conditions.
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Americans Create Paper-Based Green Bio-Batteries
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University at New York have created a biodegradable, paper-based battery.
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The Biodegradable Label Just Received a Huge Blow
A study was published in the Royal Society Open Science and argues that the existing industry standards and testing methods aren’t good enough to predict the biodegradability of single-use plastic carrier bags within lakes, rivers and oceans.
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Innocent Goes Bioplastics
Innocent will launch a bottle with 15% recyclable bioplastics. The objective is to have a 100 % non-virgin / sustainable plastic packaging by 2022.
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Mutant Plastic Eating Enzyme has been Created
Scientists and researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.K.’s University of Portsmouth have developed an enzyme that digests plastics.
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Producing Bio-Sourced Biodegradable Plastic Just Got Cheaper and Greener
Biosourced, biodegradable, biocompatible and fit for 3D printing, polylactic acid PLA seems to earn the pole position in the bioplastics market race. Yet, PLA is not yet considered a full alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics such as Polyethylene Terephtalate (PET) or Polystyrene (PS), as it is costly to produce.
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China BioPlastic Capacity
Focus on China’s biodegradable plastic capacity: it reportedly grew at a Compound Average Growth Rate of 21% from 2009 to 2013 as per ResearchInChina.
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Bioplastics Compostability – What You Need to Know
A lot has been written about bioplastics’ biodegradability properties and their ability to be composted, or “organically recycled” as some legislations in Europe would call it. When bioplastics originally hit the market some 18 years ago, there was some misconception that all were compostable and that therefore, much of the global petrochemical plastics industry would convert,…
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Biodegradable PHA
CSIR-CSMCRI Based in Bhavnagar – India – announced it has been granted a European patent for its development of biodegradable PHA from glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel produced from the jatropha oil plant.
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