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Major milestone for packaging made of biodegradable plastic as CEN approves Design for Recycling Technical Specifications
Brussels, 3 November 2026 – European Bioplastics welcomes the approval by the National Members of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) of four Technical Specifications addressing the Design for Recycling of packaging made of biodegradable plastics. The specifications…
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EUBP’s Position Paper on how Responsibly managed, certified biodegradable plastic products help eliminate persistent microplastics in appropriate applications
Microplastics and their potential environmental and health impacts have been of growing concern in recent years. However, certified biodegradable plastics can be part of the solution, as they are designed to biodegrade and mineralise rather than persist as microplastics in the…
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Live Art at EBC 26
Granulate is usually seen in a bag, a silo or a tray, as a technical input on its way to becoming packaging or a consumer product. At EBC 26, two artists will take it out of that context and use it as an artistic medium. The artists have been given complete freedom to [...]
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Bioplastic Packaging Design: Safe, Sustainable and Recyclable. An overview (White Paper)
Open the document The proceedings of the EUBP side event to the EBC 25 conference focused on the "Bioplastic Packaging Design: Safe, Sustainable and Recyclable". The key question was how to design bioplastic packaging that is safe, sustainable, recyclable, and compliant. Five…
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Rethink the circularity of your products! From Biodegradability to Recyclability, Innovators prove you can have both.
Presentations “Rethink the circularity of your products!" From Biodegradability to Recyclability: Innovators prove you can have both. A challenging legal framework is asking packaging producers to rethink their products. The EmpCo Directive makes standalone 'biodegradable'…
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EUBP’s Position Paper on the Industrial Accelerator Act
Industrial Accelerator Act: Turning Europe's biobased ambitions into an industrial business case Key Messages: • Turn recognition into market pull measures. The IAA rightly recognises biobased plastics, polymers and chemicals as strategic lead markets, but this must be…
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UPM Circular Renewable Black TM is the world’s first bio-based, NIR-detectable, carbon-neg
UPM Circular Renewable Black™ is the world's first bio-based, NIR-detectable, carbon-negative* black pigment, built to end the recycling standoff around black plastic packaging. Conventional carbon black pigments block near-infrared (NIR) detection, making black items invisible…
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Food-Waste-to-PLA: Circular Bioplastic from Third-Generation Renewable Feedstock
TripleW is transforming bioplastics production by addressing both sugar feedstock supply and post-consumer end-of-life upcycling. Historically, petrochemical refineries extracted underground crude oil to build the modern materials economy. Today, conventional PLA production…
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Sustainea’s Bio-MEG: Renewable Building Block for PET
Sustainea's Bio-MEG is produced through a one-step catalytic process that converts corn-derived dextrose directly into a bio-based monoethylene glycol chemically identical to its fossil counterpart. Validated across thousands of operating hours at demonstration scale, the…
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BitByBit Board – a PHA cutting board designed to leave no persistent microplastics behind
After reading about microplastics released from plastic cutting boards during use, 21-year-old Wessel Schönekerl started looking for alternatives. But every existing option came with its own disadvantages. Wooden boards require maintenance and are not dishwasher-safe, while…
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Bio-Iso& TM: The World’s First 100% Biogenic Carbon, Phosgene-Free Isocyanate
Algenesis Labs is a materials science and technology company founded in 2016 by three UC San Diego professors: Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Dr. Michael Burkart, and Dr. Robert Pomeroy. The company develops high-performance, bio-based, biodegradable polyurethanes and created Bio-Iso™ to…