{"id":14977,"date":"2010-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20100419-04n"},"modified":"2010-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:00:00","slug":"endpoint-bioplastic-tea-bags-prove-a-refreshing-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/endpoint-bioplastic-tea-bags-prove-a-refreshing-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Endpoint: Bioplastic tea bags prove a refreshing alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>WITH FIERCE competition between tea brands, tea bag design has become more innovative. In a drive to improve sustainability, the latest bags are made from the bioplastic polylactic acid (PLA).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20100419-04\/Tea.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"Tea.jpg\"\/>The advantages of the new bags are that they are made from a renewable material and are compostable, says Eamonn Tighe, business development manager at US-based bioplastics producer NatureWorks.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icis.com\/Articles\/2010\/04\/19\/9351158\/endpoint-bioplastic-tea-bags-prove-a-refreshing-alternative.html\" >http:\/\/www.icis.com\/Articles\/2010\/04\/19\/9351158\/endpoint-bioplastic-tea-bags-prove-a-refreshing-alternative.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags:  Ingeo PLA, pyramid-shaped tea bag, high-quality tea, ultrasonic sealing, PE, PP<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>WITH FIERCE competition between tea brands, tea bag design has become more innovative. In a drive to improve sustainability, the latest bags are made from<\/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":[2180,103],"class_list":["post-14977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ahlstrom","supplier-natureworks-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977","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=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}