{"id":16991,"date":"2013-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130925-07n"},"modified":"2013-09-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:00:00","slug":"compostable-plastics-may-help-boost-cities-food-waste-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/compostable-plastics-may-help-boost-cities-food-waste-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Compostable plastics may help boost cities&#8217; food-waste programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Composting food waste is the next step for cities hungry to reach recycling goals and reroute organic matter back to the soil instead of landfills and incinerators.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Compostable plastics are making the job easier but there are challenges to overcome from manufacturers &#8220;greenwashing&#8221; products labels to composters determining what will breakdown in an appropriate time frame given the temperature and moisture of their facility.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130925\/NEWS\/130929951\/compostable-plastics-may-help-boost-cities-food-waste-programs#\" >www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130925\/NEWS\/130929951\/compostable-plastics-may-help-boost-cities-food-waste-programs#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: packaging, solid waste management, sustainability, materials, food service, trash, plastic bags, plates, bowls, utensils, coffee stirrers, Portland, Compostable Plastics Task Force, ASTM D6400, D6868<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Composting food waste is the next step for cities hungry to reach recycling goals and reroute organic matter back to the soil instead of landfills<\/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":[2296,3837],"class_list":["post-16991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biodegradable-products-institute-bpi","supplier-cedar-grove-composting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","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=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}