InnoPlast Solutions, Inc. 03/27/2017 While most major corporations around the world have escalated their efforts in recent years on improving the Environmental Impact & Sustainability via several routes, some BREAK-THROUGH concepts have lately begun to materialize. For example, (1) REDUCING … – Read Full Story Here –
WasteDive 10/06/2016 The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved a plan to ban green and brown plastic produce bags to eliminate composting confusion, according to KUOW.org. Seattle residents have been throwing non-biodegradable green and brown plastic bags in the compost … – Read Full Story Here –
Focussed mainly on bio-based materials in automotive engineering, the international meeting will debut at the Exhibition Centre Stuttgart on 24 and 25 September as part of COMPOSITES EUROPE 2015. The conference will be organised jointly by bioplastics MAGAZINE and the … – Read Full Story Here –
The Guardian 02/16/2015 Blended cocoa beans, rice, fruit skins, leeks and asparagus sounds like it should be a recipe for a disastrous smoothie. But these are just some of the wasted foodstuffs that are being treated and converted into materials, … – Read Full Story Here –
OnEarth Magazine Susan Freinkel 09/02/2014 In a 2007 Skidmore College museum exhibit titled Molecules That Matter, the exhibit’s curators noted that we are never more than three feet away from something plastic. That stunning statistic reflects just how thoroughly plastics … – Read Full Story Here –
Resoure Recycling Bobby Elliott and Dan Leif, Resource Recycling 04/15/2014 A year from now businesses in the Portland, Oregon region will no longer be able to include compostable foodservice items alongside food scraps in commercial organics collection. Metro, the regional … – Read Full Story Here –
The Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) released a toolkit geared to help communities, material recovery facilities and end markets reduce waste and potentially generate new revenue by recovering foodservice packaging. The Foodservice Packaging Recovery Toolkit provides new resources, including what is … – Read Full Story Here –
On November 6, 2013, Debra Lynn Dadd’s Toxic Free Talk Radio Show had ILSR’s Brenda Platt as a guest representing the Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative and talking about bioplastics. Brenda is Director of the Sustainable Plastics Initiative, Co-Chair of the Sustainable … – Read Full Story Here –
This conference in Las Vegas should be a wealth of information on the growing bioplastics industry. 10/21/2013 The 2010’s appear to lighting up the spirit of innovation in the field of chemicals/polymers in a manner similar to the one during … – Read Full Story Here –
Waste & Recycling News Jennifer Kalish 04/24/2013 As more cities adopt citywide composting programs to divert food waste from landfills, the market for compostable products continues to expand. But with so many companies in the market making unverified claims about … – Read Full Story Here –