{"id":15705,"date":"2012-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120426-07n"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:00:26","slug":"study-questioning-eco-credentials-of-bio-based-plastic-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/study-questioning-eco-credentials-of-bio-based-plastic-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"Study questioning eco-credentials of bio-based plastic flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A recent study that found no bio-based plastics are fully sustainable contained significant inaccuracies and was based on out of date information, according to the leading manufacturer of one of the materials covered in the research.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>US-based company NatureWorks, which produces more than 90% of global polylactic acid (PLA), told FoodProductionDaily.com the paper from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell contained erroneous data about the bio-based plastic.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, raised a number of environmental and occupational health and safety concerns about the production of a raft of biobased plastics &#8211; including PLA, starch (pure thermoplastic starch: TPS), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), and nano-biocomposites.<\/p>\n<p>NatureWorks said much of the research was sound but that part of the paper identifying methodologies where the biopolymers industry could be more sustainable, &#8220;needs clarification and correction of factual errors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Packaging\/Study-questioning-eco-credentials-of-bio-based-plastic-flawed-NatureWorks\">http:\/\/www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Packaging\/Study-questioning-eco-credentials-of-bio-based-plastic-flawed-NatureWorks<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Tags: bioplastics, bio-based, polylactic acid, PLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A recent study that found no bio-based plastics are fully sustainable contained significant inaccuracies and was based on out of date information, according to the<\/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":[3373,3419,103,3287],"class_list":["post-15705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-journal-of-cleaner-production","supplier-mcdonough-braungart-design-chemistry-mbdc","supplier-natureworks-llc","supplier-university-of-massachusetts-lowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705","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=15705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}