Some bioplastic products are already fully competitive, IBAW says. For example, price differences between renewable raw materials and standard plastics have decreased considerably in Europe, and the number of bioplastics manufacturers worldwide is rising. The increased competition will further drive market development, the trade group adds.<\/p>\n
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Get started now<\/b><\/p>\nPackaging, agriculture and the disposal sector are all hot markets for bioplastics. For converters, development efforts are focused on multilayer films with altered characteristics that may improve barrier properties. Estimates show that today\u2019s bioplastics have a technological potential to command about 10 percent of the present European plastic market. “With the long development cycle for plastics that usually takes 20 to 30 years from invention to widespread application, we must look for alternatives in time,\u201d says IBAW chairman Harald Kaeb.<\/p>\n
Consumer research funded by IBAW reveals overall positive reactions to bioplastics and their use in packaging. Almost two-thirds of respondents said biodegradable packaging is well suited to organic foods, and 44 percent feel it\u2019s applicable for conventional foods. A third of those surveyed would be ready to pay extra \u2014for example, 5 cents more for a biodegradable yogurt cup than for a non-biodegradable one. <\/p>\n
Examples of commercialized food-packaging bioplastics include higher demand for Okopack extruded-bioplastic netting from Netherlands-based NNZ BV (abaove top); and Biophan\u00ae clear-PLA produce films from Germany\u2019s Treofan Group (above bottom).<\/p>\n
According to Kaeb, other factors will also push bioplastics forward: They can be grown in countries that don\u2019t have crude-oil resources; and they\u2019re eco-friendly due to reduced CO2<\/sub> emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Bush may have made it a major point in his latest State of the Union address, but it’s really no secret that America is<\/b><\/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-14003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003","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=14003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14003"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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President Bush may have made it a major point in his latest State of the Union address, but it\u2019s really no secret that America is addicted to oil. For the converting field and its significant use of plastics, the impact of that oil ad-diction is clearly being felt. Whether you\u2019re a filmmaker or plastic-pouch printer, the sharp rise in oil prices over the past year has everyone looking for new solutions.<\/b><\/p>\n