Compostable market news
14 million tons of microplastics on seafloor
The Australian national science agency, CSIRO (Hobart; www.csrio.au) has unveiled what it calls the first global estimate for the amount of microplastics – pieces less than 5mm in diameter – ...
New York officially ban single-use plastic bags
On October 20 2020, New York is finally enforcing its statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. The law actually went into effect last winter, but the pandemic and a lawsuit ...
Avery Dennison introduces 100% biodegradable apparel fastener
Avery Dennison Fastener Solutions – a global provider of plastic fastening solutions and systems for the automotive, apparel, retail, consumer packaging and other industries, has launched the Ecotach bio-PP tag ...
Corbion and Total to build first world-scale PLA plant in Europe
Corbion and Total have announced their intention to build a new PLA bioplastics plant in Europe through their Total Corbion PLA joint venture. The first world-scale PLA production facility in ...
UK to get first ever standard for biodegradable plastic following confusion over terminology
Amid concerns that manufacturers were misleading the public when using terms such as “biodegradable”, “bioplastic” and “compostable”, the UK government called for experts to help it develop standards for plastics ...
Taghleef Industries presents new sustainable film solution
At Labelexpo Europe 2019, Taghleef Industries (Ti), announced their new sustainable film solutions to the labels community. NATIVIA® D813 is the first bio-based and biodegradable I-IML film on the market and ...
England’s policy on reduction of nilon bags have positive results
England recognizes that the policy of reducing plastic bags is showing a very positive signal when over the past 5 years, plastic carrier bag sales fell by more than 95% ...
USA develop a new bio-based material sourced from natural food waste and organic starches
Last July 2020, BGUSA, INC announced that they have solved the much-disputed argument of ridding the Earth of single-use plastic bags by a special material. The newly developed material for ...
