{"id":123193,"date":"2023-02-24T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=123193"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:28:23","slug":"what-are-natural-polymers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/what-are-natural-polymers\/","title":{"rendered":"What are natural polymers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Six leading associations and stakeholders from the chemicals, polymers and plastics sectors \u2013 namely BioChem Europe (a sector group of Cefic), EDANA, EuropaBio, European BioPlastics, GO!PHA and Renewable Carbon Initiative) \u2013 expressed their specific concerns about the proposed definition of &#8220;natural polymers&#8221; and its impact on biopolymers in the context of the REACH restriction on microplastics.<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong>Under the coordination of the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) they ask the European Commission in a letter &#8220;that in the adoption of the text of the Synthetic Polymer Microparticles restrictions (REACH Microplastics Restriction), the European Commission should not use the definition of \u2018natural polymer\u2019 which refers to a polymerisation process that takes place in nature.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You can download the full letter with comprehensive science-based arguments here:&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/publications\/product\/letter-to-the-commission-on-the-definition-of-natural-polymers-in-the-reach-microplastics-restriction\/\">https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/publications\/product\/letter-to-the-commission-on-the-definition-of-natural-polymers-in-the-reach-microplastics-restriction\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six leading associations and stakeholders from the chemicals, polymers and plastics sectors \u2013 namely BioChem Europe (a sector group of Cefic), EDANA, EuropaBio, European BioPlastics, GO!PHA and Renewable Carbon Initiative) \u2013 expressed their specific concerns about the proposed definition of &#8220;natural polymers&#8221; and its impact on biopolymers in the context of the REACH restriction on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The proposed definition of \"natural polymers\" and its impact on biopolymers in the context of the REACH restriction on microplastics","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,24916],"tags":[5838,5847,6026,10954],"supplier":[2328,11257,1829,435,2317,16068,4,17710],"class_list":["post-123193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-rci","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","tag-biopolymers","tag-microplastics","supplier-biochem","supplier-edana","supplier-europabio","supplier-european-bioplastics-ev","supplier-european-commission","supplier-gopha","supplier-nova-institut-gmbh","supplier-renewable-carbon-initiative-rci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123193"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=123193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}