Category: Bioplastics Chronicles and Fairy Tales
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Did Russia and China Ultimately Win the Cold War?
Did Russia and China Ultimately Win the Cold War? Perhaps Russia and China ultimately won the Cold War—not militarily or…
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A Satirical Message to Vladimir Putin
Satirical message to Vladimir Putin
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EU’s New Energy Policy: Dress Like a Tree
European Commission Issues Winter Survival Guide – A satirical look at Europe’s energy insecurity and the growing pressure households could…
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Message to Xi Jinping: How to Deal with the European Commission
A satirical SOS to Xi Jinping, offering tongue-in-cheek advice on navigating Brussels, bureaucracy, regulation and Europe’s frustrated middle class today.
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How EU Regulated Itself Into Decline
How Europe Regulated Its Way Into Its Own Downfall
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EU Hires Vatican AI Guru to Lead EU AI Policy
Brussels discovers its ideal AI expert: a Vatican guru who reportedly never uses AI, making him perfectly qualified for EU…
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Roman Abramovich: The Last Soviet Golden Boy
Roman Abramovich’s journey from Soviet-era entrepreneur to global tycoon traces the rise of Russian capitalism, Chelsea’s transformation, Putin’s Russia and…
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Eni Versalis at the Berlaymont Cafeteria
“Mr Versalis, what is the most successful dish at the Berlaymont cafeteria?”
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Andy Burnham, Clown Extraordinaire
Andy Burnham, inventor of McLaren socialism: tax the British, then celebrate the supercars they can no longer afford.
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Australia’s Wind Energy Fairy Tale
Farmers are increasingly drawn into the wind-energy business, often carrying the local costs of the green transition.
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Leaked: Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union Speech
We obtained a copy of the leaked draft of Ursula von der Leyen’s upcoming State of the Union speech.
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Bio-Based Plastics: Local Crops, Global Profits
Bio-based plastics promise local production and European value, but intensive agriculture, corporate concentration and struggling farmers expose serious environmental and…
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Worst Politician of 2026
A savage verdict on political failure, establishment hypocrisy, abandoned victims and the widening gulf between European values and reality.
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Europe, Where Do Tetra Paks Actually Go?
Europe tells consumers exactly how to sort Tetra Paks. What happens after collection remains a much less transparent story.
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How Opium and Communism Westernized China
An opinion piece arguing that modern China progressively replaced much of traditional Chinese civilization by adopting Western political, industrial, technological…
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EU Press Freedom: The Bullshit Edition
A Brussels blogger challenges the EU’s claims on press freedom while facing a lawsuit linked to criticism of the European…
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Italy’s Waste Scandal: Mafia, Business and Politics
Italy’s waste crisis exposed a toxic mix of mafia trafficking, failed politics, corporate contracts and poisoned land—leaving Campania to pay…
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The Rhine Group: The People Who Broke Europe Are Here to Fix It
The Rhine Group: Making Europe Competitive Again, from Switzerland and the USA
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PPWR: The Recycling Fairy Tale Gets a Sequel
Forty years later, Brussels tries recycling again.
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Joe Biden Appointed EU Special Envoy for Oil and Gas
Joe Biden has been appointed EU Special Envoy for Oil and Gas
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How to Make the Chinese Great Again
This article offers a few practical and cultural observations on how Chinese companies and their people can operate more effectively…
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EU Hits Net-Zero Goals by Exploding Refineries
A satirical critique of the European Union funding infrastructure strikes that trigger global energy spikes, hilariously punishing its own taxpayers…
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The Waste Shipment Regulation fairy tale
After decades of treating developing nations as Europe’s personal plastic landfills, a new EU law finally kicked in this May…
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Zelensky’s position on EU tethered bottle cap (Video)
Zelensky just did the unthinkable: he ripped off the famous EU tethered bottle cap… the one we’re constantly told can’t…
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EU Justice Fairy Tale
The EU promotes the rule of law and the protection of citizens’ rights. Unfortunately, my personal experience has been very…
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The Bioplastics News UFOFiles
From everything I’ve seen on Instagram, these are what I personally consider to be the best AI generated UFO images…
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EU Freedom of Speech Advertising
A satirical look at EU freedom of speech, where expressing your opinion is simple—once you’ve consulted 12,000 pages of terms,…
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Day One as Energy Advisor to the US Government
This is satire. Relax. It’s the sequel to this article: Day One as Energy Advisor to the European Commission Imagine…
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The Wind Energy Fairy Tale
Personal Remarks I spoke to a guy who worked in wind turbine maintenance, and he told me that wind turbines…
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Day One as Energy Advisor to the European Commission
This is satire. Relax. Imagine that the European Commission, in a moment of pure desperation during the current geopolitical energy…
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European Commission declares war on Iran
European Commission President Ursula von der Clown has reportedly declared what insiders describe as a “strongly worded administrative disagreement” with…
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The Rockefeller ‘Fossil’ Oil Conspiracy (Video)
The Rockefeller lie perdured until today and still the lie hasn’t been corrected officially. It’s remarkable that our society has…
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How China bought French Vencorex?
What happened with Vencorex? What about Covestro AG? Summary What happened to the Vencorex patents? The French government allowed all…
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How Oil prices caused the collapse of USSR
History of oil in USSR / Russia and how oil precipitated the fall of the USSR. This is a FREE…
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From Environmental Emergency to Inequality Emergency
It seems the G20 is shifting its focus — from the environmental emergency to the inequality emergency. This is a…
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Bioplastics Truce and change of editorial line
I’m going to change the editorial line of Bioplastics News and make a truce with European Bioplastics members. Here’s why…
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The McKinsey FDI webinar: A Fairy Tale from the Top Floor (FREE)
I just finished watching McKinsey’s webinar on FDI — and let me tell you, the McKinsey boys really know how…
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Message to the European Commission (FREE)
Please stop annoying citizens and industry with your red tape and your crazy little rules. It’s not working. This is…
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How many oil, chemical and plastic CEOs died in a plane crash?
This article is about the oil, chemical and plastic companies CEOs and execs who died in a plane crash.
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Plastics Europe sounds alarm on declining EU market, stalled circular progress
The EU Plastics industry had a terrible communication, marketing and lobbying strategy. This is a FREE article.
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McKinsey Global Materials Perspective 2025 – Key Takeaways and Insights
I’ve just watched the McKinsey Global Materials Perspective 2025; and here are the key takeaways.
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European Commission and European Bioplastics agree on a new bioplastics label
Ridiculousness is not lethal.
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Why EU failed its global leadership
The European Union failed because it became less than the sum of its parts: UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain…
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The end of the plastic recycling industry
It will start in the EU and the US and will continue in Asia. An article by Axel Barrett. This…
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IS TUV Austria a Certification or Marketing agency?
Let me try to say this with my own words what the role of TUV Austria is. This is a…
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Did Novamont acted responsibly regarding plastic bags in Europe? (FREE)
Did Novamont (owned 100 % by ENI) developped a cartel outside Italy? This is a FREE article
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EU is in economic crisis and the Plastic industry is the canary in the coal mine
EU is sliding in an economic crisis due to the European Commission’s mismanagement. This is a FREE article
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Plastic Treaty should ban Compostable Plastics
Plastic Treaty should ban compostable plastics such as PLA and PBAT PBAT is a fossil based co-polymer mixed with bio-based…
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Plastic Treaty talks are political blabla
The Plastic Treaty talks are starting again. An important moment for the United Nations to show its relevance …. or…
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Ursula von der Leyen betrays Europe
Free article
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Ursula von der Leyen woke up the red tape monster
This is a FREE article.
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Most Stupid Bioplastic Application Ever
The price goes to PLIXXENT (German Chemical Company).
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Sustainable Packaging is a fairy tale (FREE)
Does sustainable packaging exists? FREE article
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Controversy in the world of plastic consultants and consultancies (FREE)
Polemics and accusations in the world of plastic consultancies. This is FREE CONTENT. Just click on the link
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Belgium incinerates plastic waste (FREE)
I had a discussion with an ex-employee of a waste management firm located in ‘Forest’ (Belgium) regarding what happens to…
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Science is becoming more and more elitist (FREE)
Let me share my opinion on this matter because I don’t think it’s a positive evolution in the scientific world.…
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Waste Management strategy for Trump and Musk (FREE)
Here are some waste management policy suggestions for president Trump. This is a FREE article
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Plastic State of the Union 2024 (FREE)
What happened in plastic land …. a recap of 2024. This is a FREE article
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The Carbon Capture fairy tale
Let me explain with simple words why carbon capture is greenwashing. This is a FREE article.
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Should EU Commissioner Thierry Breton be fired?
Thierry Breton Thierry Breton is a French-Senegalese citizen, chosen by French President Macron to be the French European Commissioner for…
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What is wokeism and what social media am I using? (FREE)
What is wokeism and on what social media am I spending my time? This is a FREE article.
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The Novamont Fairy Tale (FREE)
The history, present and future of the phenomenal Novamont fairy tale. The story told like you’ve never heard it before.…
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Industrial cows generate methane, not grass cows (FREE)
Another fairy tale: cows generate methane. Well, grass cows don’t. It’s industrially bred cows that generate methane. This is a…
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Bioplastics Advertising in the media (FREE)
Let’s have a look at the current bioplastics advertising in the media. This is a FREE article.
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WEF Davos most important takeaways (FREE)
Here are the main takeaways of the 2024 WEF summit in Davos. This is a FREE article
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Gaza and the Fossil Connections
Depending on how you look at history, it is possible to explain the current situation from an oil and gas…
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Eco-business on COP28 (FREE)
I received a newsletter from Eco-business in my mailbox and couldn’t help but to comment the text with a satirical…
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Some Bioplastics Companies are destroying the composting business (FREE)
You may believe that bioplastics companies are the friends of the composters but this is not the case. In fact,…
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The Annual NatureWorks ‘3M Open’ Greenwashing Circus (FREE)
I’ve received a few questions from readers in the last couple of days if PLA contained PFAS. Why do I…
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Braskem I’m Green Bio-PE and the Slavery Connections
Braskem is (currently) a Brazilian petrochemical company and is one of the largest bioplastic producer. They produce Bio-PE (bio-based polyethylene)…
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Crisis in the Plastic Sector (FREE)
I’ve spoken to a few CEO’s and senior executives from the plastic industry and the feedback is that they’re going…
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It’s a bit Quiet in Bioplastic Land (FREE)
Everything seems a bit quiet in Bioplastic land. This is a FREE article.
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Free Distribution of PEF Samples (FREE)
We organised the distribution of free PEF samples and here’s the video of what it looked like. This is a…
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The National Biobased Products Day Fiasco (FREE)
Apparently, yesterday (March 8th) was the first “National Biobased Products Day”. This is a FREE article
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Bioplastics: The ‘Best Kept Secret’ in Kansas (FREE)
Sunflower State Is A Leader In Plant-Based Polymers — I believe one of the statements regarding TUV Austria is just…
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The Oil Empire Fairy Tale
The birth of the Middle Eastern oil empire and how the quest for oil became a conspiracy for world domination.…
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Skeletons in the TotalEnergies Closet (FREE)
TotalEnergies makes profits, kills the climate and lies. The following article was published in the Belgian media following the current…
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The Inconvenient Truth About Biobased Plastics and Fuels (FREE)
There’s an inconvenient truth about bio-based plastics and fuels … This is a FREE article.
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Reflections on the NBC, CBS and Time Article (FREE)
What’s happening? Has the world gone mad? NBC, CBS and Time publish the same article about bioplastics on the same…
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The Gentleman Fairy Tale
Have capitalism and our consumption society reach a limit or is everything OK in money land? This is a FREE…
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Macron Becomes Oil Salesman (FREE)
When politicians become snake oil salesmen. This is a FREE article
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Worlds First Compostable Airplane (FREE)
This article is a satire on the “everything has become compostable” trend and is not for sensitive minds. This is…
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How to Solve the Russia Ukraine War? (FREE)
It’s time for the Friday Joke. This time it’s a satire on foreign politics and it’s not for sensitive minds.…
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The Grand Bleu 2 (FREE)
A sequel of the famous movie “Le Grand Bleu” (The Big Bleu) is being filmed and two bioplastics companies are…
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China Opened the Plastic Pandora Box (FREE)
Where are we since China decided to open the Plastic Pandora box? This is a FREE article.
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My Meeting with BASF Board of Directors
I was invited by the BASF board of Directors to exchange ideas. Here’s the video of the meeting. This is…
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The Ursula von der Leyen Fairy Tale (FREE)
Let’s have a closer look as to whom Ursula von der Leyen really is. This is a FREE article.
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The Net Zero and Climate Neutrality Fairy Tales (FREE)
We’re seeing more and more “net zero” and “climate neutrality” commitments by chemical and plastics companies. What is it all…
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The Difference Between Natureflex and Cellophane (FREE)
What is the difference between Cellophane and Natureflex? This is a FREE article
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The Bioplastics Chronicles Are Back (FREE)
The Bioplastics Chronicles are back with the Friday jokes. This is a FREE article.
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The Braskem Fairy Tale
Documentary on the skeletons in the closet of Braskem. Many companies involved in the bio-economy have committed environmental and social…
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The Green Deal Fairy Tale (FREE)
Has the European Union become undemocratic? This is a FREE article
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The Vladimir Putin Fairy Tale (FREE)
Let’s have a closer look at who is Russian president Vladimir Putin. This is a FREE article
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The Chinese Solar Panels Fairy Tale (FREE)
Presentation made on the topic of photovoltaic panels (solar panel) in the french Senate. This is a FREE article.
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The Anti Oxo History
The history and truth behind the “anti oxo” campaign. This is a FREE article.
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The California and LA Fairy Tale (FREE)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from Charlene Lee. Hi there, I very much appreciate your work on the recycling ecosystem problem.…
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The Green Funds Fairy Tale (FREE)
An analysis of ESG and climate-themed equity funds.
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The Blue Hydrogen Fairy Tale
Is Blue Hydrogen an environmental farce? An expensive distraction? A greenwashing attempt?
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The Bio Energy Fairy Tale
Do biofuels and bio energy actually reduce emissions? You have to read this one.
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The EU Chemicals Safety Fairy Tale (FREE)
EU measures to tackle hazardous chemicals build on incorrect data.
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