USABLE PACKAGING adopts state of the art technologies to develop high performance bioplastics, which are essential to respond to the end-use requirements of consumer packaging.
The compounding of base resins enables the extension of performance range, whilst electro spinning and bio-lamination technologies make fully bio-based and biodegradable multi-layer film accessible.
USABLE PACKAGING aims to fine-tune bioplastics functionality by reactive and non-reactive extrusion processing. This is very important to ensure the high performance required for consumer end use, within the mono material packaging concept.
USABLE PACKAGING includes processing technologies for the conversion of biomass into bioplastics. Control over the polymer production step makes it possible to design the product in a way that boosts performance. Additionally, the choice of biomass side streams from food industry is crucial to deliver the circular value chain.
The Usable Packaging project, funded by the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking as part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme, aims to significantly reduce the use of fossil-based, environmentally harmful packaging by developing a bio-alternative derived from food industry by-products and food waste. As follow up of the webinar in French held in February 2021, a webinar in Italian was held on 15th April 2021.
A report, produced by Ricardo Energy, quizzed experts across the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain on the potential for compostable packaging to increase the amount of food waste captured for recycling and limit plastic contamination in organic waste streams. Some 72 percent of respondents stated compostable packaging would ...
On 22 February 2021, in partnership with Euramaterials, BBIA hosted a webinar in French about the Usable Packaging project. Funded by the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking as part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme, the project aims to significantly reduce the use of fossil-based, environmentally harmful packaging by developing a bio-alternative derived from food industry by-products and food waste.
Prof. Jose Maria Lagaron
María Pardo-Figuerez, Ph.D.
Novel Packaging Materials and Nanotechnology Group, IATA-CSIC
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