{"id":16513,"date":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130422-01n"},"modified":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:00:00","slug":"an-advance-in-viability-of-bioplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/an-advance-in-viability-of-bioplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"An Advance in Viability of Bioplastics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>As Packaging Europe reported two weeks ago, the UK\u2019s Technology Strategy Board recently awarded a grant to a consortium led by Biome Technologies to investigate a bio-based alternative for the oil derived organic chemicals used in the manufacturer of bio-based plastics. Tim Sykes interviews Biome&#8217;s CEO Paul Mines to get the inside story.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>TS: Biome Bioplastics and Warwick University have received a grant from the TSB to look as the feasibility of using a chemical from lignin to replace oil-derived equivalents currently used in some bioplastics. What is the timeframe of this project and what will be the focus of the research methodology?<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packagingeurope.com\/Packaging-Europe-News\/52877\/An-Advance-in-Viability-of-Bioplastics.html\" >www.packagingeurope.com\/Packaging-Europe-News\/52877\/An-Advance-in-Viability-of-Bioplastics.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: isolate, bio-based polyester, aromatic chemical, sustainability, niche markets, economic downturn, biochemistry, chemistry<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>As Packaging Europe reported two weeks ago, the UK&rsquo;s Technology Strategy Board recently awarded a grant to a consortium led by Biome Technologies to investigate<\/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":[2102,8781,4860,685],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biome-technologies","supplier-innovate-uk","supplier-packaging-europe","supplier-university-of-warwick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","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=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}