{"id":94714,"date":"2021-09-13T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=94714"},"modified":"2021-09-13T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T06:25:22","slug":"carbiolice-announces-the-ok-compost-home-certification-of-pla-plant-based-plastic-rigid-packaging-containing-evanesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/carbiolice-announces-the-ok-compost-home-certification-of-pla-plant-based-plastic-rigid-packaging-containing-evanesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbiolice announces the &#8220;OK Compost HOME&#8221; certification of PLA* (plant-based plastic) rigid packaging containing Evanesto\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Carbiolice has developed an enzymatic additive, called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carbiolice.com\/en\/evanesto-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evanesto\u00ae<\/a>, which makes PLA (polylactic&nbsp;acid) compostable under domestic conditions.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>By integrating 5% of the Evanesto\u00ae enzymatic additive, yoghurt pots, trays, cups, horticultural&nbsp;pots, etc. can now biodegrade completely in a domestic composter in 255 days, without residue&nbsp;or toxicity, even at room temperature.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Evanesto\u00ae, the first additive to enable PLA-rich&nbsp;plastics to achieve &#8220;OK compost HOME&#8221; certification.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Carbiolice has developed&nbsp;an enzymatic additive which, when added during traditional&nbsp;transformation processes, makes PLA compostable under domestic conditions. PLA is a bioplastic&nbsp;that has the advantage of being both biosourced and biodegradable, however its compostability was&nbsp;previously limited to industrial conditions (high and constant temperatures).&nbsp;<br><br>In November 2020, Carbiolice had validated&nbsp;a first step by receiving the &#8220;OK compost HOME&#8221;&nbsp;certification by the T\u00dcV AUSTRIA Group, for flexible plasticpackaging&nbsp;(single-layer films with a&nbsp;maximum thickness of 60&nbsp;\u03bcm and multi-layer films with a maximum thickness of 30&nbsp;\u03bcm),&nbsp;containing&nbsp;33% PLA, 62% PBAT** and incorporating 5% Evanesto\u00ae.&nbsp;Rigid packaging containing Evanesto\u00ae turns into compost within 255 days, even at room&nbsp;<br>temperature and therefore in domestic conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carbiolice now obtains a new &#8220;OK Compost HOME&#8221; certification,&nbsp;this time for thicker packaging (up&nbsp;to 450&nbsp;\u03bcm in monolayers), and with a higher&nbsp;PLA content (70%). This new milestone allows&nbsp;everyday&nbsp;packaging (yoghurt pots, trays, cups, but also horticultural pots, etc.) to&nbsp;obtain the &#8220;OK Compost HOME&#8221; certification. The close collaboration&nbsp;between T\u00dcV AUSTRIA and Carbiolice will enable packaging&nbsp;manufacturers to&nbsp;facilitate their own certification process when their products contain&nbsp;Evanesto\u00ae.&nbsp;<br><br>This innovation offers the possibility to consider a respectful end-of-life of packaging within the whole&nbsp;composting chain.&nbsp;It is an additional tool in the&nbsp;ecodesign strategy for plastic packaging. It will&nbsp;enable food manufacturers to reduce the environmental impact of plastics that cannot be recycled&nbsp;because they are too thin, too complex or soiled by food.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Carbiolice&nbsp;proves through this new certification that by combining enzymology and plastics processing,&nbsp;it is possible to better control the end of life of plastics. Our Group is fully committed to this circular&nbsp;economy approach and to the positive recovery of plastic packaging. Our innovative biotechnological&nbsp;<br>processes, based on the use of enzymes, make it possible to rethink the end-of-life of plastic and textile&nbsp;polymers. Concrete solutions that will enable brands and manufacturers to reduce their environmental&nbsp;impact.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Jean-Claude Lumaret, President of Carbiolice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>*PLA-based: short for polylactic acid, a plastic made from corn or sugar cane&nbsp;<br>**PBAT (short for PolyButyrate&nbsp;Adipate Terephthalate): a biodegradable and compostable polymer with properties similar&nbsp;to low density polyethylene (LDPE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-youtube\"><div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-embed _brlbs-video-youtube\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_brlbs-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/borlabs-cookie\/assets\/images\/cb-no-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"YouTube\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-caption\"> <p>By loading the video, you agree to YouTube&#8217;s privacy policy.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy?hl=en&amp;gl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a><\/p> <p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn _brlbs-icon-play-white\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Load video<\/a><\/p> <p><label><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"unblockAll\" value=\"1\" checked> <small>Always unblock YouTube<\/small><\/label><\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"youtube\"><script type=\"text\/template\">PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iRGlzY292ZXIgRXZhbmVzdG\/CriIgd2lkdGg9IjUwMCIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyODEiIHNyYz0iaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS1ub2Nvb2tpZS5jb20vZW1iZWQvcEVXQVZCbUdFVlk\/ZmVhdHVyZT1vZW1iZWQiIGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyPSIwIiBhbGxvdz0iYWNjZWxlcm9tZXRlcjsgYXV0b3BsYXk7IGNsaXBib2FyZC13cml0ZTsgZW5jcnlwdGVkLW1lZGlhOyBneXJvc2NvcGU7IHBpY3R1cmUtaW4tcGljdHVyZTsgd2ViLXNoYXJlIiByZWZlcnJlcnBvbGljeT0ic3RyaWN0LW9yaWdpbi13aGVuLWNyb3NzLW9yaWdpbiIgYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuPjwvaWZyYW1lPg==<\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<br><strong><br>About&nbsp;Carbiolice&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Carbiolice, an innovative French company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carbios, was created in 2016 to develop&nbsp;a new&nbsp;100% compostable and 100% biodegradable bioplastics chain.&nbsp;In close collaboration with Carbios and the world leader in enzyme production, Novozymes, Carbiolice, has developed a first&nbsp;enzymatic additive: Evanesto\u00ae. When added to the manufacture of PLA-based plastic packaging (of vegetable origin), it&nbsp;makes it 100% compostable, even under domestic conditions.&nbsp;<br><br>Based on nearly 10 years of R&amp;D in collaboration with Carbios and the Toulouse laboratory TBI (Toulouse Biotechnology&nbsp;Institute), Carbiolice has&nbsp;succeeded in making this technological challenge an industrial reality. The Evanesto\u00ae additive is&nbsp;simply added during traditional plastic transformation processes and&nbsp;can&nbsp;be integrated during the flexible or rigid food&nbsp;packaging manufacture.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This innovation was recognised in early 2021 as one of the 1,000 solutions to change the world by the Solar Impulse&nbsp;Foundation. It has also just been awarded the Greentech Innovation label by the Ministry of Ecological Transition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About&nbsp;T\u00dcV AUSTRIA Group<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00dcV AUSTRIA Group is the largest independent testing, inspection and certification company in Austria. Founded in 1872, the&nbsp;company stands for quality and transparency. All&nbsp;of the Group&#8217;s worldwide revenues are invested in supporting innovation&nbsp;and training in the interests of quality, safety and environmental protection.&nbsp;<br><br>The T\u00dcV AUSTRIA Group is an international company with branches in more than 40 countries, more than 2,000 employees&nbsp;<br>and a turnover of 200 million euros.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About&nbsp;Carbios&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Carbios, a green chemistry company, is developing innovative and competitive biological processes with a view to their&nbsp;industrialisation, representing a major innovation in the life cycle of&nbsp;plastics and textiles. Through its innovative approach,&nbsp;which for the first time brings together the worlds of enzymology and plastics processing, Carbios aims to meet the new&nbsp;societal expectations of consumers and the challenges of the ecological transition by tackling a major challenge of our time:&nbsp;plastic and textile pollution.&nbsp;<br>Founded in 2011 by Truffle Capital, the company&#8217;s mission is to provide an industrial response to the recycling of PET-based&nbsp;plastics and textiles (the main polymer in polyester bottles, trays and textiles) and to the biodegradation of PLA through its&nbsp;subsidiary Carbiolice. The enzymatic recycling technology developed by Carbios deconstructs any type of PET waste into its&nbsp;basic constituents, which can then be reused to produce new PET products of equivalent quality to virgin PET. This world&nbsp;first was hailed&nbsp;in April 2020 by the international scientific community through a front page publication in the prestigious&nbsp;journal Nature. To support the acceleration of this project, Carbios also relies on a Consortium including L&#8217;Or\u00e9al, Nestl\u00e9&nbsp;Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage &amp; Food Europe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbiolice has developed an enzymatic additive, called Evanesto\u00ae, which makes PLA (polylactic&nbsp;acid) compostable under domestic conditions.&nbsp; By integrating 5% of the Evanesto\u00ae enzymatic additive, yoghurt pots, trays, cups, horticultural&nbsp;pots, etc. can now biodegrade completely in a domestic composter in 255 days, without residue&nbsp;or toxicity, even at room temperature.&nbsp; Evanesto\u00ae, the first additive to enable PLA-rich&nbsp;plastics [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"After flexible plastic packaging (food films, lids, ...), it is now the time for rigid plastic packaging  (up to 450 \u03bcm) containing 70% PLA and the Evanesto\u00ae additive to obtain the \"OK compost  HOME\" certification","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[18169,11270,5847,12239,7105],"supplier":[12894,7630],"class_list":["post-94714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-additive","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioplastics","tag-compostability","tag-packaging","supplier-carbiolice","supplier-carbios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94714","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94714"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=94714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}