Circular economy: bio-plastics have an issue
Plastics in the Circular Economy are hot. The last EFIB-conference in October 2019 featured a track dedicated to ‘The future of plastics’. The last edition of Dutch magazine Agro&Chemie also featured an article on bio-plastics. And the recently announced European Green Deal includes a focus on the plastics industry because it is resource intensive. Based
Synthetic biology in food production
Last year, Friends of the Earth launched a campaign called ‘Extreme Genetic Engineering in Your Ice Cream?’, directed against ‘natural’ vanillin produced by genetically modified yeasts. It got assurances from major ice cream producers like Häagen Dasz that they would not use this product but would stick to vanillin extracted from the vanilla orchid. But
No good complaining about European waste legislation
Recently I attended several biobased networking events where utilization of waste and by-products was discussed. I found these interesting talks; both because my company Abstraction partners with ARN to supply a tool to register by-products, and because it surprises me that apparently the business community still believes that governmental rules and regulations inhibit the utilization
on: 2 November 2015