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Start-up success and green ideas

ENVIRONMENTALLY-friendly packaging solutions won a Wrexhamcompany a top accolade in last year’s Achievement Wales Business Awards.

ProcuraSell scooped theWelsh Assembly Government’s Business Start-up Award for the development of its compostable trays designed for use by food retailers, the catering industry and others.

The company, which has offices in Redwither Tower on Wrexham Industrial Estate, makes its newcompostable trays from natural fibre left over from the sugar refining process. The trays aremade for the company in China and are said to be an ideal replacement for packaging materials such as plastic and aluminium.

http://www.packagingdigest.com/articleXml/LN842644212.html

Comparaison bioplastics / pétro-plastiques via une étude de chercheurs d’Hawaï, les bioplastiques gagnent ?

Biodegradable plastic made from renewable resources always sounds better than petroleum-based plastics, right? Well, kind of. We know that most bioplastics aren’t biodegradable in the sense that you can toss it in a compost bin and expect it to quickly disintegrate. Bioplastics still often have to go through an energy-intensive recycling process to get them to fully degrade. So, does this make them equally undesirable? Exactly how do they measure up to conventional plastics?

A new study by researchers at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu aimed to find out, and they discovered a few leg-ups that bioplastics have over conventional plastics during the production phase, primarily that bioplastics emit fewer carbon emissions when manufactured.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2038/64/

Les bioplastiques en bonne position grâce à la montée des prix du pétrole

Ever since plastics revolutionised product manufacturing in the late 19th century, these materials have grown to dominate modern consumerism. From the computer keyboard to outdoor furniture, plastics are one of the most versatile materials available to manufacturers. However, they may no longer be one of the cheapest materials available. Oil price hikes are seeing to that, and pushing science to search for new, low-cost, ‘greener’ options to fill the world’s need for versatile plastics.

Some product alternatives to plastic have already travelled the path to market, such as the edible chocolate trays made of corn starch developed by CSIRO and other Food and Packaging Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) partners and now manufactured by biodegradable packaging company Plantic. Overseas, similar biodegradable polymer materials are being used for plastic wrap and supermarket meat trays.

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20082708-17864.html

US demand for bioplastics to reach $845 millon in 2012

Demand for biodegradable plastic in the U.S. is forecast to expand nearly 16 percent per year to 720 million pounds in 2012, valued at $845 million, according to a new report by market research firm The Freedonia Group.

According to the report, entitled “Biodegradable Plastics”, “Polylactic acid (PLA) demand will present good opportunities through 2012, reflecting price declines, improved product performance and greater processor familiarity.”

http://www.canplastics.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=89210&issue=09082008

Votre voiture contiendra sous peu des matériaux issus de blé américain

Chances are, parts of your car are made from Ontario-grown corn and soybeans.

Didn’t know that?

Not many people do, but it’s a growing reality as auto parts makers look for cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternative materials.

And local farmers are getting in on a piece of the action.

“Our goal is to have 300 kilograms from agriculture in every vehicle,” Gord Surgeoner, president of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, told the Western Fair Association last week.

Les bioplastiques, un secteur d’investissement alléchant

 

Current European consumption of bioplastics is limited, at between 75,000 and 100,000 tonnes, industry association chairman Harald Kaeb put forward at an Interpack conference on the topic. While this is clearly miniscule compared with a figure of nearly 50 million tonnes for standard plastics, the bio sector does offer growth rates in excess of 25%, he noted.

Stanelco, le producteur de bioplastiques, sort la tête … et fait des profits

http://www.stanelcoplc.com/

Sales at Stanelco have almost doubled according to its half year results and the company’s ceo said the firm is on the road to regaining profitability.

Des bactéries qui font des plastiques biodégradables à partir de vieux plastiques

 

University College Dublin (UCD)

Des bactéries qui mangent des vieux plastiques (PS, PET …) pour en faire … des plastiques biodégradables ! Une nouvelle forme de recyclage ? Voici plusieurs artciles sur le sujet.