{"id":29751,"date":"2015-10-27T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=29751"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:45:03","slug":"can-the-bioeconomy-deliver-solutions-for-the-global-microplastic-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/can-the-bioeconomy-deliver-solutions-for-the-global-microplastic-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Bioeconomy Deliver Solutions for the Global Microplastic Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deutsche Version https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/hat-die-biooekonomie-loesungen-fuer-das-globale-mikroplastikproblem<\/a>
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Plastic particles can be found in air, soil, rivers and lakes, and especially in the marine environment. Plastic particles with a diameter smaller than 5 mm are referred to as microplastics. The release of microplastics into the environment is a topic of major concern. The United Nations, national governments, environmental agencies, non-governmental organisations and many more interested parties are looking for solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can the substitution of conventional materials with biodegradable and bio-based materials be a possible solution for certain applications when the release of plastic into the environment cannot be avoided?<\/p>\n

Showcasing solutions<\/h3>\n

Companies from all over the world will showcase their biodegradable and bio-based solutions at the upcoming international conference Microplastic in the Environment \u2013 Sources, Impacts & Solutions, Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany, 23 – 24 November 2015.<\/p>\n

The applications include biodegradable microbeads for cosmetics and body care products (Mango Materials, US; Omya International CH; CFF, DE; CELLUTECH, SE; J. Rettenmaier & S\u00f6hne, DE and TerraVerdae BioWorks, CA), natural and man-made cellulosic fibres (Lenzing, AT), biodegradable mulch films (BASF, DE), compostable fruit stickers (Bio4Life, NL), bio-based and biodegradable tree protector tubes (FKuR, DE) and biodegradable packaging solutions (PT Inter Aneka Lestari, ID). More companies are invited to join the conference and exhibition!<\/p>\n

At the conference the concept of biodegradation of bio-based plastics in contrast to the fragmentation of non-biodegradable plastics and oxo-fragmentable plastics will be introduced in detail. Furthermore, it will be discussed which standards and labels are available for biodegradable plastics in different environments.<\/p>\n

Christian Bonten (University of Stuttgart, DE) will discuss the degradation of plastics. Jan Ravenstijn (Jan Ravenstijn Consulting, NL) will speak about the functionality and application of biodegradable and bio-based plastics. Bruno de Wilde (OWS, BE) will give scientific evidence on the degradation of bio-based plastics in different environments. Labelling of marine biodegradable products will be presented by Petra Michiels (OK compost Vin\u00e7otte, BE).<\/p>\n

The comprehensive programme of the conference on sources, impacts and solutions is online available: http:\/\/microplastic-conference.eu\/programme<\/a><\/p>\n

Download this press release as PDF file: 15-10-27 PR can bioeconomy solve microplastic problem nova<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deutsche Version https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/hat-die-biooekonomie-loesungen-fuer-das-globale-mikroplastikproblem Plastic particles can be found in air, soil, rivers and lakes, and especially in the marine environment. Plastic particles with a diameter smaller than 5 mm are referred to as microplastics. The release of microplastics into the environment is a topic of major concern. The United Nations, national governments, environmental agencies, non-governmental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,7192],"tags":[10954],"supplier":[75,9949,11143,11047,302,11147,661,304,3921,3037,3877,10068,781,2920],"class_list":["post-29751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-novapress","tag-microplastics","supplier-basf-se","supplier-bio4life","supplier-cellutech-ab","supplier-cff-gmbh-co-kg","supplier-fkur-kunststoff-gmbh","supplier-inter-aneka-lestari-kimia","supplier-j-rettenmaier-soehne-gmbh-co","supplier-lenzing-gruppe","supplier-mango-materials","supplier-omya-ag","supplier-organic-waste-systems-ows","supplier-terraverdae-bioworks","supplier-universitaet-stuttgart","supplier-vincotte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29751","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29751"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=29751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}