{"id":15304,"date":"2011-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110830-02n"},"modified":"2011-08-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:00:00","slug":"dow-chemical-showing-increased-interest-in-bioplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/dow-chemical-showing-increased-interest-in-bioplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow Chemical showing increased interest in bioplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"

If The Graduate were made today, Mr. McGuire might not be so keen on plastics. By now it’s a mature industry, with 500 billion pounds of the stuff produced every year. But hidden in that massive trove is a segment that hopes to capture the same explosive growth predicted back in 1967. Say it with me: “bioplastics.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Dow Chemical (NYS: DOW) generates a significant portion of its earnings ($11.6 billion worth of sales in 2010, or about a fifth of all revenue) through its plastics division. The climbing costs of petroleum and a rising tide of environmentalism have boosted interest in bioplastics.<\/p>\n

… More at<\/b> www.dailyfinance.com\/2011\/08\/30\/dow-chemical-bets-big-on-bioplastics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Keywords: Brazil, sugarcane, polyethylene, Braskem, NatureWorks, Cereplast, Metabolix<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If The Graduate were made today, Mr. McGuire might not be so keen on plastics. By now it’s a mature industry, with 500 billion pounds<\/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":[1604,372,103],"class_list":["post-15304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-braskem","supplier-dow-chemical-company","supplier-natureworks-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304","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=15304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15304"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}