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...
Recently, PA Consulting (PA Consulting) and Searo Labs partnered to develop seaweed-based plastics and disposable items for global brands that can be used in consumer products and packaging in the food, personal care and home care sectors.
Searo's material is reportedly compostable at home, hea...
Recently, Envalior announced the launch of a new line of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) composites, Pocan® X-MB, based on biorecycled 1,4-butanediol (BDO).
The sustainable components of this thermoplastic have been certified and classified according to the ISCC PLUS (International Sustainabil...
Recently, Carbios and Sleever launched SeelCap Onego, the world's first tamper evident seal for at-home composting.
What revolutionizes this innovation is the direct integration of CARBIOS Active, the biodegradable solution developed by CARBIOS for PLA, into the production process, making these PLA-r...
Zen Running Club, an Amsterdam-based company that produces bio-based, plastic-free running shoes, recently launched a new shoe, the Zen Running Club, which it claims is the “most sustainable running shoe” on the market.
Zen Running Club was founded in 2020 by two former Nike employees, Andy Farnworth...
Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- AIMPLAS, a Spanish plastics technology center, is researching the addition of microorganisms to biodegradable mulch film to improve crop yields and productivity. This approach specifically involves adding probiotics and hydrogels to agricultural mulch films.
Hydrogels are...
With the wide application of biodegradable plastics in the fields of packaging, agriculture and medical care, the environmental impact of their waste and resource wastage are becoming more and more prominent. Although PBAT has good biodegradability, its production cost is much higher than that of tr...
