Bioplastics
Can we reach President Joe Biden’s ambitious bioplastics goal? The Society of Plastics Engineers’ Conor Carlin and Green Bottom Line’s Kelvin Okamoto weigh in from our Bioplastics Live event. Plus, PET pricing news and a tour of the new Plastics News resin prices page..
Bioplastics can help companies reduce their carbon footprint but they need more work to become competitive with fossil fuel-based polymers.
Transitioning from petroleum-based polymers to biopolymers for plastics parts will take time, and will not be easy.
Ascend Performance Materials is seeing growth in its Bioserve-brand line of materials with plant-based content.
Bioplastics material and products maker NantBioPlastics is investing in an expansion to meet compostable single-use products demand. Teknor Apex acquired PVC recycler Nu-Pro Polymers and Mocom Compounds adds a new extrusion line in South Carolina.
NantBioPlastics LLC, a subsidiary of Calcean Minerals and Materials LLC, has invested $8.3 million in a new Gadsden, Ala. manufacturing facility to meet demand for compostable single-use products.
If the White House had announced a 50-year goal to replace half of conventional plastics with bioplastics, we'd probably all be thinking "sure, that could happen." But a 20-year timeline seems awfully unrealistic.
Sustainable Plastics Editor Karen Laird: "If you don't have a goal, you don't have anything to work to, so in that sense, whether it's achievable in the time frame that's been set here, I don't know
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