Past Events

At a time of unprecedented challenge for people and businesses, it has never been more important to address the environmental and social challenges of bioplastic packaging throughout its entire supply chain from production to end-of-life management. Join us on 4 March 2021, from 10.00am to 12.30pm for the first social innovation lab to explore the [...]

RWM is the UK's largest recycling, resource and waste management event and RWM, in partnership with CIWM, is being brought to viewers across the world in a virtual capacity next year. Join the event for three days of free advice and education on the most pressing challenges facing your organisation. Listen to live seminars from [...]

Le développement de bioplastiques compostables et biosourcés est essentiel pour la mise en oeuvre d’un modèle d’économie circulaire dans le secteur des plastiques. Financé par le Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) - un organisme de l’ Union européenne - dans le cadre du programme Horizon 2020, le projet Usable Packaging a pour objectif de réduire [...]

The Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (University of Bath) presents this series of online seminars by Professor John Warner (Monash University and Warner Babcock Institute), 2020/2021 University of Bath Global Chair and Founder of Green Chemistry.  Dates and times #4 R&D and Design – Case Studies and Innovation When: 18 February 2021, 13.00-14.30 GMT [...]

If you are interested in the challenges that companies face when producing and placing new bio-based and biodegradable materials and products on the market, then join this meeting of the European Bioplastics Research Network on 17 February from 10.00am-12.30pm CET. Register for participation through the Bioplastics Europe online form.

IBioIC’s flagship annual conference returns for its seventh  year on 10 – 11 February 2021 in a virtual setting. Never before has the need to secure the bioeconomy become more apparent. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the need for a green recovery, with the Scottish and the UK governments publishing economic plans that are designed to [...]

There may be more plastic in our oceans than fish by 2050. Still, the problems start long before the plastic reaches oceans, seas, rivers and beaches, and so are the solutions… Societies, governments and companies around the world have united behind the goal of a circular economy for plastics with a common vision. When we [...]

REGISTER VIA ZOOM BBIA has published two new pieces of evidence that are of relevance to all those in the resource and waste industries. The first is a 10-year perspective on how the UK can ensure best practice when food waste collections will be mandated from 2023. This paper underlines the role compostable packaging has [...]