{"id":16220,"date":"2013-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130102-03n"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:00:00","slug":"biopsy-for-bioplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biopsy-for-bioplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biopsy for bioplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Can we afford not to use them? The debate is producing plenty of heat, reports Paul Gander.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of this year, biodegradable bioplastics have stopped receiving special treatment from Germany&#8217;s regulators. The exemptions from charges levied on other materials under the country&#8217;s notorious Packaging Ordinance no longer apply.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Packaging\/Biopsy-for-bioplastics\" >www.foodproductiondaily.com\/Packaging\/Biopsy-for-bioplastics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: biopolymers, &#8220;fully sustainable&#8221;,  first-generation food crops, non-food second-generation crops, bio-PET, PGA, biodegradable adhesives, EVOH, &#8220;risks market distortion&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Can we afford not to use them? The debate is producing plenty of heat, reports Paul Gander.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of this year, biodegradable<\/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":[435,598,459,342,3287],"class_list":["post-16220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-bioplastics-ev","supplier-innovia-films","supplier-vtt-technical-research-centre-of-finland","supplier-umweltbundesamt","supplier-university-of-massachusetts-lowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220","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=16220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}