Infrastructure
Manufacturing plants, scale-up facilities and infrastructure investments in bioplastics.
Compostable Packaging in Industrial Practice: What the Data Shows
Compostable packaging is supposed to break down alongside food waste. Whether it does so in a working composting plant, rather than in a laboratory, is…
Managing Biodegradable Plastic Waste: Challenges and Opportunities
Biodegradable plastics get presented as the answer to plastic pollution. A review in Waste Management & Research by Mhaddolkar N, Astrup TF, Tischberger-Aldrian A and…
India Plans $238M Bioplastics Mega-Plant From Sugar Waste
India’s Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has announced a $238 million bioplastics plant in Maharashtra that will turn sugar industry waste into 100,000 tonnes a…
Algae-Based Bioplastics Secure Major Government Funding
Government programs in the US, EU and Japan have committed over $180 million to algae-derived polymers. The scale of this algae bioplastics funding marks a…
Sulzer Opens Biopolymer Scale-Up Center in Switzerland
Sulzer Chemtech has opened a biopolymer scale-up center in Winterthur, Switzerland, aimed at the stage where most bioplastics innovations die. The Sulzer biopolymer center holds…