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

Scottish Government announces new plan for biotechnology

Posted on February 4, 2019

The Scottish Government has released its National Plan for Industrial Biotechnology, which sets out its vision to achieve a mature bioeconomy by 2025. Published on 31 January 2019, the new national plan hopes to further embed circular economy thinking in Scotland’s manufacturing sector, aiming to increase the number of companies active in industrial biotechnology to […]

Ellen MacArthur Foundation launches Cities and Circular Food report

Posted on January 31, 2019

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched its new report, Cities and Circular Economy for Food, on 24 January at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The report highlights the enormous environmental and health damages caused by the linear nature of how we produce food and manage waste and by-products. The findings brings to light how […]

Vegware expands composting collection service

Posted on January 23, 2019

Compostable catering disposables manufacturer and BBIA member Vegware has extended its composting collection service to Bristol, allowing the city’s food businesses to ‘close the loop’. Vegware’s Close the Loop trade collections service sees used compostable disposables collected from food businesses to be turned into compost for use in UK fields. Additionally, Vegware also runs a […]

Ocean plastic solutions funding accelerator

Posted on January 23, 2019

Up to £2 million of funding has been made available by Innovate UK to help fund solutions to the issue of ocean plastics in a new investment accelerator. The funding is available to support business-led innovation that will help develop solutions to the environmental crisis caused by plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. The competition […]

Innovation Biocamp for bio-based SMEs

Posted on January 16, 2019

BioVale will be running an Innovation Biocamp for start-up bio-based businesses in the Netherlands. The BioBase4SME project will be providing small businesses working in the bioeconomy with €7,000-worth of specialist training fully funded by the project at its Biocamp in Bovendonk, the Netherlands, across 5-10 May 2019. The Biocamp is free of charge and applications […]

Co-op progress on compostable bags use

Posted on January 3, 2019

UK supermarket Co-op announced in October that it would be offering new compostable bags at more than 1,000 of its stores nationwide in a bid to cut single-use plastics use. The retailer has joined forces with BBIA member Novamont to use the Italian company’s Mater-Bi bioplastic in the plastic bags given out by the supermarket. […]

Can soil organic carbon reverse atmospheric carbon dioxide build-up?

Posted on January 3, 2019

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Bioeconomy Strategy released

Posted on December 7, 2018

The UK Government has released its Bioeconomy Strategy, which outlines how the UK can become a world-leader in the bioeconomy by 2030. The strategy, released on 5 December, seeks to double the value of the bioeconomy to the UK economy from £220 billion to £440 billion and create a fertile policy environment conducive to the […]

BBIA Managing Director David Newman speaks at Drowning in Plastics panel event

Posted on December 4, 2018

BBIA Managing Director David Newman featured in a panel debate on the plastics crisis hosted by BBC science and wildlife presenter Liz Bonnin at the Royal Geographic Society in London on 29 November. The event explored the obstacles in the way of tackling the plastics crisis and what needs to be done to reduce its detrimental […]

Bioeconomy tour of northern Italy

Posted on November 30, 2018

Cré (Composting and Anaerobic Digestion Association of Ireland), in partnership with Organics Recycling Group of the Renewable Energy Association and the BBIA has put together a bioeconomy study tour in Milan and the Veneto region of Italy to visit: Food waste collections systems in Milan A composting/biogas plant Novamont’s headquarters and research laboratories SESA’s integrated […]