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Dear members,
We are pleased to share with you the monthly press clipping April 2022. If you have any questions, comments, or interesting news or topics to share, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Enjoy the read!
Kind regards from the European Bioplastics team
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SIBUR starts forestation campaign as part of decarbonisation strategy
(Viet Nam News)
27/04-2022 |
| MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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Media OutReach
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SIBUR, the largest petrochemicals company in Russia and one of the fastest growing in ... |
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| industry, has launched the Green Formula forestation initiative as part of its wide-reaching decarbonisation strategy.
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Sulzer’s advanced solutions for chemical recycling on show at Go Circular 2022
(Process Industry Match)
14/04-2022 |
| Sulzer Chemtech will highlight how its range of cutting-edge mass transfer technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste ... |
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| efficient production of renewable, bio-based and recyclable materials, Sulzer Chemtech will contribute to the discussion. During the event, |
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Woolworths rolls out compostable fruit and veg bags in SA
(Convenience & Impulse Retailing)
14/04-2022 |
| Woolworths in South Australia has launched new locally made compostable fruit and vegetable bags in stores statewide to help slash single- ... |
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| an effective way to reduce plastic waste. The compostable bags have been made in SA by local manufacturer, Biobag.
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Avantium and Sukano sign offtake agreement to develop PEF film masterbatches
(Packaging Insights)
11/04-2022 |
| 11 Apr 2022 --- Avantium, a leading producer of PEF (polyethylene furanoate) bioplastic, has signed a conditional offtake agreement with ... |
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| overstated,” said François de Bie, EUBP chairman, at the European Bioplastics Conference in Berlin, Germany, in December 2021.
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How is the European bioplastics industry seeking to gain more regulatory approval?
(Packaging Europe)
11/04-2022 |
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| European Bioplastics, an association representing the bioplastics industry in Europe, recently announced the appointment of Maria Negut as its new Head of EU Affairs. Her job will be to convince EU decision-makers that bioplastics can play a vital role in helping them to achieve their climate goals. We spoke with ... |
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PET-Bottle-Grade – BRICS-countries 11-04-2022
(Polyestertime)
11/04-2022 |
| PET-Bottle-Grade – BRICS-countries
Petrochemicals – PET-Bottle-Grade – PP
-Mattel deploys Sabic’s renewable polymers globally
Sabic, a ... |
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Basic
Information and Advantages of
PLA
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Avantium-N
: and
Sukano
sign offtake agreement to develop
masterbatches-for |
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Packaging Possibilities: Frito-Lay’s Compostable Packaging Experiment
(Packaging Digest)
6/04-2022 |
| Frito-Lay will debut new commercially compostable packaging — made from 85% renewable plant materials — at a popular music and art festival ... |
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| are the source of our resin are
NatureWorks
, who’s the source of our PLA resin, and then
Danimer Scientific
creates the final resin |
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New approach to data anlaytics provides the way forward for UK chemicals
(Process Engineering)
6/04-2022 |
| The chemicals sector can look forward to a boom period if it adapts to new-era analytics and finds opportunity in decarbonisation. |
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Completing the project in less than two years, Sulzer has enabled the manufacturer to produce 30,000 tonnes of bioplastic annually. |
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Big Food & Beverage Needs To Detox From Its Plastic Addiction!
(CleanTechnica)
27/04-2022 |
| Profits masked as safety concerns make plastic packaging rampant in the food and beverage industry. Unfortunately, there is no one-fits-all ... |
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| are considered a viable option to plastic packaging. These materials have great potential as
biodegradable food packaging solutions
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Costa Coffee trials plant-based lids in UK for single-use carbon cuts
(Packaging Insights)
25/04-2022 |
| 25 Apr 2022 --- Costa Coffee is launching a trial of 100% fiber lids on takeaway cups at 150 stores across the UK. The lids are made from ... |
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| Costa Coffee changed the inside lining of its takeaway cups to plant-based plastic from oil-based plastic last year. The new cups have a 26% |
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How To Make Plastic Disappear
(Forbes)
22/04-2022 |
| This week’s special Earth Day edition of the
Current Climate
newsletter.
Sign up to get it in your inbox every week.
To celebrate my ... |
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Zerocircle uses dried seaweed to create a plastic-like, compostable packaging.
Across the globe, Hawaiian native and California-based |
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Chemical recycling principles established by The Consumer Goods Forum
(Packaging Europe)
22/04-2022 |
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| The Consumer Goods Forum's (CGF) Plastic Waste Coalition of Action has published a set of principles that it claims can help to guide the credible, safe and environmentally sound development of the chemical recycling industry alongside an LCA pointing to the potential of chemical recycling to reduce GHG emissions for ... |
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Tom Ford plastic alternatives contest awards its 8 finalists
(Inhabitat)
21/04-2022 |
| The finalists in the world’s only global competition focused exclusively on creating scalable and biologically degradable thin-film plastic ... |
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| . Icelandic start-up Marea is looking toward algae to make biodegradable alternatives to thin-film plastic.
The U.K. has three finalists. |
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Sea-farmed supercrop: how seaweed could transform the way we live
(The Guardian)
19/04-2022 |
| From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap the marine plant’s huge potential |
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| because it provides a route away from fossil-based plastics. It allows you to use biomass that can be produced at a really high rate in the |
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Fruit stickers are the scourge of the compost pile
(The Verge)
18/04-2022 |
| When everything else decays, those little plastic stickers remain |
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| most backyard piles aren’t capable of breaking down a “compostable” bioplastic fork (which does break down sustainably but can last for |
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Research Collaboration Developing Sustainable Textile Coating
(AZoM.com)
12/04-2022 |
| In a bid to replace the harmful chemicals used in durable water repellent (DWR) textile coatings, a new research collaboration is ... |
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| novel biopolymer.
“By mimicking the properties of the solitary masked bee's cellophane-like nesting material, we have created a biopolymer |
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Five questions about biomass in the circular economy in 2050
(Wageningen University & Research)
8/04-2022 |
| The coalition agreement has articulated impressive ambitions for accelerating the transition to a circular and bio-based economy. But what ... |
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| , and all at the right price, of course. We’re all familiar with biodegradable plastic bags and Coca Cola’s ‘plant bottle’, but the range of |
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An Examination of Sustainable Adhesives
(AZoM.com)
7/04-2022 |
| Growing global environmental concerns and the desire to limit the dependency on non-renewable mineral resources has stimulated the ... |
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| of plant biomass. Lignin is a nonlinear low molecular weight phenolic biopolymer that is obtained as a byproduct of the lignocellulosic |
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Dell Latitude 5000 (2022) Series Laptops Announced With An Eye On Sust
(Dailyhunt)
7/04-2022 |
| Dell has announced its next-generation Latitude 5000 series of business laptops. According to the company, the packaging materials of these ... |
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| using 71% recyclable and renewable materials that include "tree-based bioplastic upcycled from the papermaking industry (21%), reclaimed |
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| Policy Issues
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Scoping possible further EU-wide end-of-waste and by-product criteria
(JRC Publications Repository)
28/04-2022 |
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| This study supports the implementation of both the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Waste Framework Directive by identifying a list of priority waste or by-product streams (scoping) and deriving the most suitable candidate streams for which to develop further EU-wide end-of-waste or by-product criteria. |
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Creating a framework for the designers of the circular economy
(Packaging Europe)
11/04-2022 |
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| When Joe Iles joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the framework of the circular economy was still in its infancy. Now, this model has become much more central to the way that businesses and consumers operate, and the Foundation has been at the centre of that transition. |
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European Compost Network
(European Compost Network)
11/04-2022 |
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| No inclusion of composting and anaerobic digestion of biowaste in the EU Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) |
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Weighing up the Plastic Packaging Tax
(Lexology)
8/04-2022 |
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The Plastic Packaging Tax came into force on 1 April 2022.
What is it?
The Plastic Packaging Tax is a new tax applicable to plastic ... |
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| contain more than 30% recycled plastic. However, it does apply to biodegradable, compostable and oxo-degradable plastics.
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Bio-plastic industry gets tax incentive
(Bangkok Post)
6/04-2022 |
| The cabinet has approved an extension of a 25% corporate tax exemption for bio-plastic industry companies in order to promote Thailand as ... |
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| place to support private companies to purchase bio-plastic products from Thai producers and promote bio-plastic production in Thailand.
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