{"id":15562,"date":"2011-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20111118-02n"},"modified":"2011-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:00:00","slug":"symphony-attacks-absurd-californian-marketing-ban-on-oxo-bio-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/symphony-attacks-absurd-californian-marketing-ban-on-oxo-bio-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony attacks &#8216;absurd&#8217; Californian marketing ban on oxo-bio plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Symphony Environmental Technologies has hit out at Californian legislation that it says highlights the &#8216;absurdity&#8217; whereby it cannot market its oxo-biodegradable plastic as biodegradable in the state.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s comments followed an October 26 annoncement by the State of California Justice Office, which said that attorney General Kamala D. Harris had filed a lawsuit against 3 companies: ENSO Plastics, Balance and Aquamantra.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the first such suit unter the state&#8217;s 2008 environmental marketing law, Harris alleged that the firmas had made &#8220;false ande misleading claims&#8221; by marketing their plastic water bottles 11 per cent &#8216;biodegradable&#8217; and &#8216;recyclable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Packaging\/Symphony-attacks-absurd-Californian-marketing-ban-on-oxo-bio-plastics\" >www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Packaging\/Symphony-attacks-absurd-Californian-marketing-ban-on-oxo-bio-plastics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Keywords: oxo-bio, plastic bottle, labeling, dispose, microbial additive<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Symphony Environmental Technologies has hit out at Californian legislation that it says highlights the &#8216;absurdity&#8217; whereby it cannot market its oxo-biodegradable plastic as biodegradable in<\/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":[2974,2973,435,2976,2975],"class_list":["post-15562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-aquamantra","supplier-enso-plastics","supplier-european-bioplastics-ev","supplier-state-of-california-justice-office","supplier-symphony-environmental-technologies-plc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562","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=15562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15562"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}