waste collection

New studies confirm: biodegradable plastics boost organic recycling and improve mechanical recycling

Content Manger2023-10-19T15:59:49+02:0017 October 2017|Tags: bags, bio-waste, biobased, biodegradable, bioplastics, compostable, EN 13432, Germany, industrial compostable, Italy, packaging, PLA, recyclable, renewable, research, separate collection, single-use, standard, starch, Studies, waste, waste collection, waste management|

Berlin, 17 October 2017 – Biodegradable plastics offer innovative solutions to improve recycling quality by facilitating the means for more efficient separate waste collection. This has been confirmed by a recent study jointly released by Corepla, the Italian Consortium for Collecting, Recycling, and Recovering Plastic Packaging, the Italian Composters Consortium (CIC), and Assobioplastiche, the [...]

Revision of EU Fertilizers Regulation: Why we need biodegradable mulch films

Content Manger2021-10-08T10:41:12+02:005 October 2017|Tags: agriculture, applications, Austria, biobased, biodegradable, bioplastics, EU Fertilisers Regulation, European Parliament, France, Germany, innovation, members, microplastics, mulch films, Normec OWS, Organic Waste Systems (OWS), recyclable, Spain, standard, waste, waste collection|

Biodegradable mulch film © European Bioplastics Berlin, 5 October 2017 – In the light of the upcoming vote of the European Parliament on the revision of the EU Fertilizers Regulation, European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association for the bioplastics industry in Europe, calls on the Plenary to confirm what has been approved by [...]

Biodegradable plastics needed to increase recycling efficiency

Content Manger2017-09-21T09:48:19+02:0021 September 2017|Tags: bags, biobased, biodegradable, bioplastics, circular economy, compostable, EU waste legislation, oxo-degradable, packaging, PLA, recyclable, renewable, research, separate collection, starch, Studies, waste, waste collection, waste management|

Berlin, 21 September 2017 – In the light of the current debates and consultations on the upcoming EU Strategy on Plastics and the revision of the EU waste legislation, European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association for the bioplastics industry in Europe, echoes the call for greater investments in the implementation of separate recycling streams, made [...]

European Parliament breakfast on biodegradable plastics

Content Manger2024-05-22T15:44:20+02:0031 January 2017|Tags: bags, bio-waste, biodegradable, biodegradable in soil, bioplastics, circular economy, compostable, end-of-life, EU Fertilisers Regulation, European Parliament, food waste, marine litter, members, microbes, mulch films, Novamont, recyclable, research, standard, waste, waste collection|

On 25 January 2017, at the crossroads of several important dossiers and initiatives concerning the Circular Economy Package, Margrete Auken, Member of European Parliament, hosted a breakfast debate on ‘Clarifying biodegradable plastics and how to put them to proper use’. MEP Auken welcomed a delegation of the Congress’ of the Philippines Ecology Committee – [...]

Studies show benefits of compostable bio-waste bag in Germany

Content Manger2023-10-19T16:01:16+02:0024 November 2016|Tags: anaerobic digestion, bags, bio-waste, biomass, certification, circular economy, compostable, EN 13432, Germany, recyclable, standard, Studies, waste, waste collection, waste management|

The deployment of EN 13432 certified compostable bags in the source-segregated collection of bio-waste continues to be a hotly debated topic. The City of Milan has set a prominent example of the crucial role compostable bags can play in a waste management system poised to maximise the material use of bio-waste. Several other cities and [...]

Revised mandate for home composting standard

Content Manger2017-01-11T08:00:46+01:0028 September 2016|Tags: bags, compostable, Directive, European Commission, home composting, industrial compostable, packaging, recyclable, separate collection, standard, waste, waste collection, Waste Framework Directive|

The EU Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste, as modified by the EU Directive on lightweight carrier bags in 2015, tasked the European Commission to adopt specifications for labels of home compostable plastic carrier bags. Accordingly, in June 2016, the Commission asked the relevant European Standardisation Committee, CEN, to develop a standard on home compostable [...]

Biodegradable plastics were never designed to be a solution to marine litter

Content Manger2017-01-11T08:00:47+01:0027 June 2016|Tags: agriculture, biobased, biodegradable, bioplastics, compostable, EN 13432, fossil-based, France, industrial compostable, marine litter, microplastics, mulch films, packaging, policy, recyclable, research, standard, sustainability, waste, waste collection, waste management|

By Karen Laird, Sustainability Editor at PlasticsToday.com Karen Laird, European/Sustainability Editor, PlasticsToday A report from the United Nations Environment Program, or UNEP, entitled Marine Plastic Debris And Microplastic - Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change recently caused quite a stir in the media – for all the wrong [...]

The benefits of separate organic waste collection

Content Manger2017-01-11T08:00:47+01:0015 March 2016|Tags: anaerobic digestion, bags, bioplastics, compostable, Directive, European Commission, food waste, Germany, industrial compostable, Italy, kitchen waste, members, Novamont, recyclable, separate collection, waste, waste collection, waste management|

Since January 2015, separate collection of organic waste is mandatory in Germany. The implementation, however, has been rather slow, and not all municipalities provide separate biowaste collection schemes yet. The German association for compostable products ‘Verbund kompostierbare Produkte e.V.’ therefore recently called for municipalities to implement the separate collection of biowaste and support the [...]

Organic recycling

EUBIO_Admin2024-12-05T12:40:37+01:0021 February 2016|Tags: bio-waste, composting, home composting, industrial compostable, recyclable, separate collection, waste, waste collection|

Organic recycling Compostability is a clear benefit when plastic items are mixed with biowaste. Under these conditions, mechanical recycling is not feasible, neither for plastics nor biowaste. The use of compostable plastics makes the mixed waste suitable for organic recycling (industrial composting or anaerobic digestion), enabling the shift from [...]

Mechanical recycling

EUBIO_Admin2024-12-05T12:39:47+01:0021 February 2016|Tags: home composting, industrial compostable, recyclable, separate collection, waste collection|

Mechanical recycling A large share of bioplastics produced today is mechanically recyclable. Biobased plastics that are chemically and physically identical to their fossil-based counterparts but made from biomass instead of fossil-based sources, are called drop-in materials, such as biobased PE or biobased PET. The only difference to their fossil-based equivalents [...]

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