Each year, disappearing at the Netherlands 175 million coffee cups in the trash. Often the cup symbolizes a lack of sustainability. Eco-friendly and bio-based alternatives. Purchasers the challenge of biobased products – from coffee cups to construction products and detergents – to give a fair chance in procurement. “Biobased products are durable, functional and sometimes even cheaper.”<\/p>\n
Our economy is still largely on fossil fuels eventually run out. Less use of oil, coal and natural gas also means fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the government wants to make the transition to a bio-based economy in which fossil fuels to make way for renewable alternatives. Biomass – such as wood, sugar beets, potatoes and seaweed – can be a source of energy and fuels, but also for quality products. “When people think biobased especially 100% biodegradable products,” said deputy director Karin Weustink biobased economy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. “That may be an advantageous feature for products with a temporary job. But biomass can also make plastics with exactly the same properties as ordinary plastic – or even better. ”<\/p>\n
Biobased products are already there, but the market share is still small, according to consultant biobased economy Iris Rich of RVO.nl. “Partly because of higher costs, but mainly due to unfamiliarity of biobased alternatives for clients and buyers. Sometimes proof a bottleneck; guarantees that something will last 20 years are not there yet. “The government can transition to a biobased products boost with biobased procurement, says Rich. “It happens little while biobased products not only provide sustainability gains, but also have functional benefits and perhaps purchase more expensive, but the entire lifecycle sometimes cheaper.”<\/p>\n
There run two pilot projects to explore the opportunities and constraints for biobased procurement. Rich: “The aim is to improve the position of biobased products in tenders. With minimum requirements and award criteria or innovative interrogate example. “Rob Heijink category is catering manager at the government and involved in a pilot project with the purchase of coffee cups. “Biobased aspects extra points in the tender. Suppliers not only score on materials – with emphasis on origin and production – but also on encouraging reuse of the cup, new forms of recycling and anticipate future developments. What do you do if there is a better biobased cup on the market after 2 years? If a supplier can respond to it, that earns extra points. “Meanwhile, the biobased coffee cup appears naturally in many places already, finds Heijink. “But there is still plenty to play questions. How the cups are processed? If they just go into the combustion, we still sacrificing durability. ”<\/p>\n
Although biobased procurement has not yet been established, are more and more initiatives. City of Amsterdam puts biobased street furniture, the town Brummen has been renovated with bio-based materials and Zealand working on a bio-based bridge. Rijkswaterstaat is investigating a pilot how they may award the improvement of the N18 with bio-based criteria. Again, the more elements are biobased, the higher the score.<\/p>\n
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PIANOo, Procurement Expertise, supports governments who want to apply bio-based purchases in their procurement of tools and equipment. Signpost Biobased Procurement is a first starting point. PIANOo builds the signpost on the basis of the results and experiences from the pilots to purchase biobased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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