Bioplastics: India, Australia and Dow Chemicals

RECYCLING Recycling is often used as an objection to making plastic degradable, but this is not a well-founded objection, for the reasons given at https://www.biodeg.org/subjects-of-interest/recycling-2/ Recycling does not however address the principal concern about plastics around the

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Symphony Environmental Technologies plc (LON:SYM) is a world leader in the development of additives to make ordinary plastic biodegradable and protective technologies to enhance plastic products.

IT’S TIME TO BAN “COMPOSTABLE” PLASTIC The French CITEO packaging organisation, a partner of the French government, says that in the current situation, PLA will be banned for food packaging in France as from 2030 because

Readers will recall that the UK Dept for the Environment (DEFRA) and the Dept. for Business (BEIS) have been refusing to disclose most of the responses received to their public consultation on Standards for Bio-based, Biodegradable

Symphony Environmental Technologies plc (LON:SYM) is a world leader in the development of additives to make ordinary plastic biodegradable and protective technologies to enhance plastic products.

Innovation “I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you are going to innovate.”  – Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon My experience with oxo-biodegradable plastic proves him right.  Here is a technology which

Last week I expressed concern that the proposed UN Plastics Treaty could be a very bad treaty if the UN pays too much attention to environmental zealots who wish to ban plastic for no good reason.

Agricultural Film I have been reading an article in “Nature Communications” by some researchers in Zurich who say “Using biodegradable instead of conventional plastics in agricultural applications promises to help overcome plastic pollution of agricultural soils.

Readers of this column will recall that the UK Dept for the Environment (DEFRA) and the Dept. for Business (BEIS) claimed in their response to their 2019 consultation on Standards for Bio-based, Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics, that “There was

Symphony Environmental Technologies plc (LON:SYM) is a world leader in the development of additives to make ordinary plastic biodegradable and protective technologies to enhance plastic products.