Author: BBIA

About BBIA: The Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) represents companies involved in the production of biodegradable polymers and finished products for the benefit of the environment. Our members’ activities span a wide range of sectors and applications, providing a range of sustainable solutions that benefit both businesses and individual consumers. BBIA aims to develop the circular bioeconomy in the UK, promoting markets and production of bio-based and biodegradable chemicals, their transformation into consumer and other products and materials. With increasing pressure to keep fossil fuels in the ground, bio-based alternatives can bridge the gap to meet demand. This can be done through the use of starch and glucose derivatives, as well as fibre reinforcements, including flax, hemp, sisal, jute and wood regenerated cellulose. The production of new biomaterials is opening up opportunities, creating jobs and wealth in the new green economy.

Posts by BBIA

International Compost Awareness Week: Reports from selected composting associations

Posted on May 19, 2021

This year’s International Compost Awareness Week, which ran from 2-8 May 2021, was marked by a webinar on 19 May involving a number of presentations from composting associations such as the US Composting Council, Ecomondo and Carbon Clarity. The presentations, which can be accessed through the following links, included: Putting a value on compost by […]

New Vegware waste collections for Cambridgeshire caterers launched by Countrystyle Recycling and Envar Composting

Posted on May 18, 2021

Envar Composting and Countrystyle Recycling have partnered with Vegware to launch collections for compostable foodservice disposables in Cambridgeshire. This follows the recent announcement of Countrystyle Recycling’s expansion into the Cambridgeshire area, through operations at its Thetford depot and from the St Ives composting facility of its sister company, Envar Composting. Collections will be made using […]

Novamont releases videos on composting and how to maintain the carbon cycle

Posted on May 13, 2021

A number of videos in various European languages have been released by Novamont explaining composting and how to maintain the carbon cycle. The educational videos aim to describe and explain key concepts in terms of composting, such as biodegradation and how the carbon cycle feeds soil. Italian English French German Spanish […]

Irish Government welcomes launch of Cré’s certification scheme for compostable packaging

Posted on May 6, 2021

The Cré Compostable Certification Scheme is the only Irish scheme providing third party independent assessment that packaging is compostable in Ireland and is accepted in food waste bins (brown bins). The Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheal Martin said: “It is recognised that the scheme supports producer, public and consumer awareness and action in both the […]

Benefits of compost highlighted during International Compost Awareness Week 2021

Posted on May 5, 2021

Compost organisations around the world have joined forces to highlight how composting can recycle carbon, help mitigate climate change and feed the soil. International Compost Awareness Week (2-8 May) showcases how recycling organic wastes into compost can benefit the environment and people by locking up carbon in soil, returning nutrients to degraded land while also […]

‘Bags for life’ increasing amount of plastic on the market, says Co-op

Posted on May 4, 2021

Co-op has revealed that ‘bags for life’ made available to customers to replace single-use carrier bags have inadvertently caused an increase of up to 440 per cent in the amount of plastic put on the market in the last three years. Sales data published by the retailer have found that ‘bags for life’ are increasingly […]

Parkside’s Cré accreditation demonstrates best practice for compostables infrastructure

Posted on April 29, 2021

Specialist packaging converter Parkside Flexibles, which produces sustainable flexible packaging, has launched its own range of fully certified compostable laminates, Park2Nature™. Parkside is a valued customer of Futamura’s NatureFlex™ renewable and compostable packaging films that provide an essential barrier layer for many of the Park2Nature laminates. NatureFlex films are produced from sustainable wood pulp harvested […]

KCC Packaging develops biodegradable food tray for ready meals

Posted on April 27, 2021

KCC Packaging has developed a sugar cane-based biodegradable food tray to be used in place of the plastic ones that two million ready meals a year are supplied in within the UK. Managing Director Kevin Clarke said: “The main thrust of what we are doing as a business is developing an alternative for a high […]

Mater-Bi mulch film: the experience of Peirone farm

Posted on April 15, 2021

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We are living in a climate emergency, and we’re going to say so

Posted on April 15, 2021

Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term “climate emergency” in its coverage of climate change. An official statement about this decision, and the impact it hopes it can have throughout the media landscape, is below. This idea is not a journalistic fancy. We are on solid scientific ground. […]