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Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA)

11 November 202124 November 2021

New insights reveal confusion about sustainable packaging

New vox pop study as part of the Usable Packaging project suggest that the concept of plant-based plastics is even less familiar to the British general public

2 November 20209 September 2021

NNFCC joins 43 other signatories in open letter to UK government

Signatories are calling for the immediate banning of plastics containing additives to degradation

23 July 202021 July 2020

Compostable materials market booms in Italy

Country has recently invested in a new extended producer responsibility scheme for compostable packaging called Biorepack

17 June 202012 June 2020

UK associations call on government to ban oxo degradable plastics

As the UK is now in the process of revising legislation on the use of plastic packaging, now is the time to act

19 March 202016 March 2020

European Commission takes aim at ‘greenwashing’ in new circular economy action plan

The EU’s circular economy action plan goes a long way in setting out an agenda on sustainable products

16 March 20208 December 2020

BBIA responds to Tesco’s packaging strategy

According to a recent study published by University College London, 84% of consumers prefer to purchase products in compostable packaging

23 May 201918 May 2019

The reinvention of bio-plastics: New kids on the block

Bio-plastics industry is looking into the use of non-food crops (2nd and 3rd-generation feedstock), such as cellulose, with a view to develop new materials

17 May 201913 May 2019

UK compostable packaging market poised for tenfold increase by 2025, new report finds

Study showed an abundance of renewable bioresources that could supply the biochemicals needed to produce low-carbon biopolymers for the compostable packaging market

5 April 20192 April 2019

Industry experts query whether bioplastics can solve the plastic pollution problem at sustainability conference

Biodegradable plastic market in the UK is set to grow to 200,000 tonnes by 2030, out of a volume of 2.3 tonnes of plastic in circulation

1 February 201929 January 2019

UK-based Vegware expands composting collection service

Composting Collective – a collective solution for Vegware on the go

13 November 20188 November 2018

Bioeconomies aim to become a beating heart of local communities, both rural and urban

Biobased industries, which currently account for 8% of the EU’s workforce, could create one million new green jobs by 2030

31 March 201630 March 2016

Compostable coffee cups present solution to single-use cups in foodservice environments

Vegware setting up new trade waste routes all around the UK for compostable packaging and food waste

9 November 20156 November 2015

First study on economic impact of bio-plastics industry to the UK presented by the BBIA at the House of Lords

The analysis produced by CEBR shows that a proper legislative framework would enable the development of a UK bio-plastics sector with 35,000 jobs and £2 billion of gross value added to the economy, considering packaging alone