The year 2018 has been extremely fruitful for the bioplastics market! The general awareness in our society that a different approach in our consumption mode is necessary, has made its way and has also reached the plastic sector. Driven by the evolution of the consumer demand and the European and French legislation, the biobased and / … Lire la suite
Biobased plastics appear today as an alternative to the use of petroleum based polymers. Indeed, to tackle the environmental challenges generated by the fossil resources extraction, they are one of the ways to reduce some impacts of the plastic production on our environment. Not necessarily biodegradable, they thus permit in many cases to avoid the use … Lire la suite
François-Michel Lambert, a Bouches-du-Rhône deputy, has published on Monday March 4th his report containing 49 measures to fight against plastic pollution. Against the climatic urgency and the numerous problems caused by the plastic pollution, the deputy, who had already written an amendment for the EGALIM law regarding the ban of some utensils made from single-use plastic, is going further … Lire la suite
FRANCOFIL is a French company located in Normandy and specialized in the production of technical filaments for the 3D printing sector. On top of the development of PLA (polylactic acid) filaments, FRANCOFIL has recently expanded its portfolio with the recovery of by-products like seashells, coffee grounds, wheat or even cocoa from different sectors (agriculture, catering, etc.), under the form of fillers in … Lire la suite
The BIOCOMPLACK project is a collaborative European project supported by the European Commission (program Horizon 2020 FTI Pilot-2015-1) gathering 5 Partners from Spanish, French and Italian nationality. This project which has begun in 2016 aims to produce a new food packaging. It is designed to be biobased, biodegradable, industrially compostable and flexible using a multilayer structure with cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) to … Lire la suite
Deep Purple is a 48 months H2020 European project (Call: H2020-BBI-JTI-2018). The consortium consists of 14 partners from six European Union countries (France, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Italy and United Kingdom). WHY DEEP PURPLE? We lose a lot of valuable resources by not utilizing the nutrients and compounds in sewage and biowaste to its full potential. Up to 138 … Lire la suite
NATUREPLAST AND BIOPLASTICS IN THE SPOTLIGHT On the 26th of August, TF1 (French TV channel) has sent one of its team to NaturePlast in Normandy to shoot a report on the use of waste and byproducts from scallop to be printed on 3D. With the collaboration of Francofil, a productor of technical filaments for the … Lire la suite
FEAD which is the representative body of the private waste management and resource industry in the European Union has published a guide on the impact of compostable plastics on waste management. While reminding the definitions of the terms biobased, biodegradable and compostable, the federation lists the problems connecting, according to them, to the use of compostable plastics. … Lire la suite
PLA composting is a topic that is regularly in the public eye when the biodegradable polymers end of life is mentioned. Indeed, PLA is a material entirely biobased produced from sugar cane or corn starch but also industrially compostable. When put into different temperature and humidity conditions (and put in presence of micro-organisms), this polymer will break down into water, CO2 … Lire la suite
Le marché des bioplastiques n’y échappe pas, le réchauffement climatique et la pollution des sols et des océans par le plastique sont au centre de l’actualité. La prise de conscience de nos sociétés se poursuit et de plus en plus de citoyens souhaitent que des solutions soient mises en place pour endiguer ce problème. Bien que les … Lire la suite