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

January 2019 NNFCC Biobased Products News Review

Posted on January 14, 2020

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Research project positions available in Ireland

Posted on January 7, 2020

Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Cré are delighted to announce commencement of a research project on BioPost – ‘Sustainable, biodegradable, compostable and recyclable plastics for packaging and end-of-life management’. This project is funded under the EPA Research Programme 2014-2020. The EPA Research Programme is a Government of Ireland initiative funded by the Department of Communications, […]

The plastic polluters won 2019 – and we’re running out of time to stop them

Posted on January 3, 2020

BBIA MD David Newman talks to Resource Magazine

Posted on December 18, 2019

And interview with BBIA Managing Director David Newman has been published in the latest edition of Resource, covering his career and the outlook for bioplastics. Ranging from his work in the nascent Italian composting industry in the early 200s to setting up the BBIA in 2015, Newman shares the lessons learned from advancing the role […]

UK Plastics Pact members makes progress

Posted on December 18, 2019

Members of the UK Plastics pact are over halfway towards all their packaging being recyclable and a third of the way towards using an average of 30 per cent recycled content in their packaging by 2025. The members, including retailers and companies such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Coca-Cola and Unilever, have committed to eliminating 1.1 billion […]

Bioplastics to play a crucial role in making European Green Deal become reality

Posted on December 17, 2019

The great recycling con

Posted on December 13, 2019

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England’s recycling rate increases marginally

Posted on December 3, 2019

New figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have revealed that England’s ‘waste from households’ recycling rate has risen to 45.1 per cent – a 0.3 per cent increase on last year’s statistics. According to Defra’s latest ‘Statistics on waste managed by local authorities in England in 2018/19’, the total volume […]

Achieving the compostable

Posted on November 29, 2019

French Environment Agency confirmed benefits of bio-based and compostable bags

Posted on November 28, 2019

The French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) released a report on 14 November on the environmental impact of fruit and vegetable bags. The ADEME report, entitled ‘The environmental impact of fruit and vegetable bags’, demonstrates the environmental performance of bio-based compostable plastic bags in a lifecycle assessment and their ability to be […]