October 29, 2024 Teijin Frontier Ltd. announced the global launch of its BIOFRONT® PLA (polylactic acid) resin, a biodegradable resin that breaks down more efficiently in natural environments, such as oceans, rivers, and soils, than conventional PLA.
Teijin Frontiers is adding a new biodegradation ac...
The New York Times reported on Nov. 8 that President-elect Donald Trump's climate and environment transition team is considering a number of major moves, including another U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The news was a bombshell, casting a shadow over the upcoming November 25th global “pla...
On Nov. 7, Malaysia's Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Nie Nazmi said the government expects to impose a total ban on the use of single-use plastic bags and gradually transition to the use of biodegradable plastic bags in 2026 or earlier.
He said in order to furthe...
On November 6, Dutch PEF producer Avantium announced that it had signed an agreement with Parfums Christian Dior to use the new bioplastic in its packaging.Avantium has been working for three years on applied research with LVMH Recherche, the research center of Dior Perfumes and luxury goods giant L...
A recent study by British academics on the toxicity of biobased fibers may overturn the original perception of “biobased” proponents. The authors suggest that bio-based fibers (viscose and lyocell) may be more harmful to earthworms and more harmful to the environment than petrochemical-based fibers ...
Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6, and while his campaign focused largely on isolationism, immigration, crime and inflation, his previous record in the White House shows that he has ramped up domestic fossil-fuel production, weakened laws aimed at curbing pollution and overha...
Starting in November 2024, the global beverage industry giant, Japan's Suntory Group (SUNTORY), launched PET bottles produced using paraxylene (Bio-Paraxylene), which is extracted from waste cooking oil. This will be the world's first commercially available bioparaxylene PET bottle and will hel...
OXMAN, a U.S.-based design lab, recently launched O° (pronounced “O-Zero”), a biomaterials, digital and robotics platform. The lab's first product made using the O° platform is a line of shoes made entirely of polyhydroxy fatty acid esters (PHA).
Computationally Designed, 3D Printed PHA Shoes ...
Three students in Turkey have created a company that produces plastics from recycled olive kernels and are exhibiting their products at the FAKUMA plastics fair (Oct. 15-19) in Germany. The company is called Biolive Biyolojik ve kimyasal teknolojiler san tic a.s. and is based in Istanbul, Turkey....
October 15, 2024 - Fortum Recycling & Waste, Finland's leading waste management and recycling solutions company, has successfully produced biodegradable plastics from carbon dioxide (CO₂) generated by waste incineration at its plant in riihimki, Finland.
The new “plastics born from CO₂” brand wil...
