Voici le sommaire du dernier bioplastic-magazine.
Un article très intéressant traite des plastiques compostables non pas dans des stations industrielles mais dans des composteurs individuels. Un article traite également du recyclage des plastiques par les insectes.
Voir également les artilces suivants
Des bactéries qui recyclent les plastiques
Editorial
dear readers, when you have this, the sixth issue of bioplastics MAGAZINE for 2008, in your hand, you know we are approaching the end of the year – a year that has …
Applications
Haigh’s Chocolates Launch White Ballotins Chocolate Box with New Packaging
Haigh’s Chocolates, Australia’s oldest family-owned chocolate manufacturing retailer, has introduced new biodegradable packaging for their White Ballo…
Hot Coffee- and Soup Cups Made of PLA coated paper
Wei Mon Industry Co. Ltd. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, lately developed their Pland Paper® hot coffee cups and soup cups based on a paper substrat…
World Famous Sweets’ Wrappers go Compostable
Innovia Films’ renewable and compostable packaging film, NatureFlex™ has been chosen by Nestlé UK to wrap one of its signature confectionery brands, Q…
New Shopping Bag has Luxury Looks and Biodegradability Credentials
Procos, the Munich-based maker of packaging and ribbons for luxury goods, has launched a new line of high quality promotional carry-home shopping bags…
Basics
Home Composting ≠ Home Composting
In numerous publications, presentations, company brochures etc. one can read, or hear statements, about ‘home composting’. However, when taking a clos…
OK Compost HOME: Another Approach to Composting
Home composting is becoming a very popular activity in certain parts of Europe….
Films, Flexibles, Bags
New Bioplastics For Multilayer Systems
Advantages of multilayer systems: Approximately one third of worldwide plastics production is used for the production of film, making film extrusion o…
Latest Innovations in Flexible Packaging Films
Increasing the range of applications that can be served by biopackaging requires constant innovation e.g. the development of moisture barrier properti…
Performance of Mirel in Agricultural Mulch Film Applications
An evaluation of agricultural mulch film made from biobased PHA polymers (Mirel™ from Telles™, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA) was conducted by Professor …
A New Mater-Bi Grade for Garden Waste Collections: A Specifically Taylor-made Application
Besides other Mater-Bi® grades for smaller biobags made for kitchen waste collections, Italian supplier Novamont has also developed a different materi…
From Science & Research
Using Bugs to Recycle Plastic
Researchers team up to convert polystyrene and PET into a biodegradable plastic….
LCA
Natureflex Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Profile
Background: A carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted during the life cycle of a …
Materials
Braskem Announces the First Bio-Polypropylene
The Development of green PP of renewable origin is an unprecedented feat by Brazilian company Braskem, which was also the pioneer in launching the fir…
News
arc Verbruggen New CEO of Natureworks
Guayaki Goes for Green Packaging
BioSolar to Begin Pre-Production Runs of Its Solar Module
PLA Bottles in US
Paper Coating, Laminating
PLA Films Laminated to Paper – a Unique Sustainable Packaging Concept
Sidaplax and its parent company Plastic Suppliers Inc. are leading manufacturers of OPS & PLA specialty films and distributors of a large variety of o…
A Better Option for Specialized Performance Coatings with Ingeo
Performance coatings are now a new and significant application for Ingeo™ biopolymer – an application that today allows for the expansion of extrusion…
Extrusion coating and laminating with biopolymers
Under the brand name Sustainex Mondi offers versatile biodegradable and sustainable packaging materials suitable for applications in the food and non-…
Mater-Bi Innovative Materials For Extrusion Coating and Lamination
Compostable bioplastics like Mater-Bi®, derived from or containing renewable resources, are a new generation of materials able to significantly reduce…
Politics
Situation in France Club Born From the Parliamentary Debate on Plastic Bags
In France, the companies involved in bioplastics are united in a national organization named ‘Club Bio-plastiques’. It is the Association Française Po…
Preview
Bioplastics Awards 2008
Organised by European Plastics News, the tenth Bioplastics conference, to be held in Munich on December 3 and 4 this year is presenting the third Biop…
Processing
Film Extrusion of Bioplastics
In film extrusion, new line concepts and specially adapted technology are required when processing bioplastics. Reifenhäuser of Troisdorf, Germany, on…
Review
3rd European Bioplastics Conference: Positive Climate for Bioplastics
The 3rd European Bioplastics Conference was held in Berlin, on the 5th / 6th November. The 22 exhibitors and approximately 300 delegates from 26 count…
