Foreword
This month sees the effort to
reduce single-use plastics continue, with supermarkets in particular coming
under increased pressure to eliminate unnecessary and difficult to recycle
packaging. While some say single-use food packaging is unavoidable, poor
labelling and black PET containers exacerbate the problem and the organisation
Which? has found that only 52% of supermarket packaging can be easily recycled.
Although it’s not all bad news. ALDI has announced they are launching a trial
of paper and compostable carrier bags in all of its UK stores, and those
responsible for 85% of plastic packaging sold through supermarkets have signed
up to achieve the four UK Plastics Pact targets by 2025. To achieve these targets,
we must increase our rate of recycling, reduce our consumption and look for
alternatives – which could see the use of compostable packaging
increase. As part of the UK Plastic Pact, a report commissioned by BBNET
highlights how compostable packaging also presents an opportunity to substitute
durable plastics. Drax also makes an
appearance in our Biobased Products edition, making news as it........
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- UK Plastics Pact members to eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use
plastics
Markets
- Biotech dye leader PILI secures €3.6 million funding
- Caribos announces capital increase
- UK compostable plastics
- Avantium renews strategy to commercialise PEF
Research & Development
- Early-stage assessment for bio-based chemical design
- Material with mussel-like stickiness
- BBI JU awards €1.3 million in funding to industry consortium 'VEHICLE'
- Animal feed from Drax flue gases
- Biobased sensors for spoiled food
- Bio-polypropylene from fermentation
- Synthesis of amides in the bio-based solvent Cyrene™
- Dow to develop cosmetic ingredient with Deinove bacteria
Polymers
- Recycling of supermarket packaging
- Producing biodegradable bags in India
- Lenzing to become the first carbon neutral fibre producer in the world
- Lyocell fibre plant in Thailand
- First simultaneous production of biobased polypropylene and low-density
polyethylene
- AMUT Group collaborates with NatureWorks
Chemicals
- New plant to produce amino acid surfactants
- Partnership to push biobased coatings in China
- Deinove and Avril developing natural feed additive
- Genomatica to utilise REG assets
- Two-step thermo-chemical fractionation process
Consumer Products
- Aldi to trial paper and compostable plastic bags
- Eucalyptus fibre comforter launched
- Kartell to release biobased plastic storage unit
- Compostable trainers
- Lamipak introduces sustainable packaging Lami-Natural
- Biobased cleaning product to come in biobased plastic packaging
Patents
Events
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