{"id":13825,"date":"2005-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20050117-04n"},"modified":"2005-01-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T22:00:00","slug":"us-expects-boom-in-degradable-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/us-expects-boom-in-degradable-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"US expects boom in degradable plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US demand for degradable plastics is expected to grow by 13.7% per annum over the next three years, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedoniagroup.com\/\" >Freedonia Group<\/a>. The US research company forecasts demand to reach 168.000 tonnes in 2008, valued at $490 million (\u20ac372 million).<\/p>\n<p>A widening of applications will come from more competitive pricing structure, improved performance characteristics, development of degradeability standards and consumer education on the benefits of such materials.<\/p>\n<p>Freedonia says in its study, called Degradeable Plastics, that other environmentally friendly plastics will also see growth. Demand for biodegradable\/compostable plastics is expected to grow by 16% per annum to more than 132.000 tonnes in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Freedonia predicts the best opportunities for polylactic acid, particularly in packaging but also in fibre markets.<br \/>Starch-based plastics demand is projected to expand 11.6% annually to 38.000 tonnes in 2008 as prices become more competitive and resin grades improve. Film products such as compost bags will be the dominant sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US demand for degradable plastics is expected to grow by 13.7% per annum over the next three years, says Freedonia Group. The US research company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}