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• MIT Professor To Open Bioplastics Factory

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 476
  A new bioplastics factory by a company called Metabolix will officially open this December. Metabolix, founded by MIT biology professor Anthony Sinskey and his former postdoc, Oliver Peoples, will utilize MIT-patented technology to manufacture bioplastic from corn. The plant will have the capacity to produce 110 ...
  2 days ago

• Plastic Made With Wheat Straw Cuts Petroleum Use At Ford

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  For years Ford has been experimenting with materials to cut its petroleum use, and the 2010 Ford Flex will showcase the latest fruits of their labor. The Flex’s third-row storage bin will have a 20 percent wheat straw-based plastic content.While the change may seem small, it will cut manufacturing petroleum by 10 ...
  3 days ago

• Iowa plant to employ MIT-developed technology to make bioplastic from corn

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  MIT biology professor Anthony Sinskey and his former postdoc Oliver Peoples are opening a new factory in Iowa to produce bioplastic from corn using MIT-patented technology. Targeting annual production of 110 million pounds of the new bio-plastic, the company hopes to provide some stability to the level of plastic in ...
  4 days ago

• Weekly News Roundup

  
  Green Chemicals — Authority: 429
  For those who thought the blog forgot its Weekly News Roundup, I was actually considering not doing it this week as I wasnt able to compile them last week. Fortunately, my Google Reader came to the rescue! Here are last weeks news in no particular order. I will put a separate post about the DOEs biomass grant ...
  5 days ago

• BASFs new green acrylic and plastic

  
  Green Chemicals — Authority: 429
  It looks like chemical companies are in full swing promoting numerous green projects and products. We recently posted news from Dow Chemical , Honeywell , Clariant , Eastman , Teijin, Arkema ... and now heres from BASF. The company is formally launching on Wednesday its new zero-emission Acrodur® acrylic ...
  5 days ago

• COCA-COLA Canada Launches Innovative “PLANTBOTTLE™”

  
  PakBec — Authority: 120
  All Sparkling Soft Drinks and DASANI Served in PlantBottle at Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. --- Coca-Cola Canada announced today that the innovative PlantBottle packaging will be featured throughout the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, joining other select markets in the initial global ...
  5 days ago

• Plastic bottles. “… process that turns sugar cane and molasses, a by-product of sugar production, into a key component for PET plastic.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 127
  The Coca-Cola Company has reported:‘… that beverages in its innovative PlantBottle™ packaging are beginning to arrive on store shelves in select markets throughout the world, initiating the Company’s journey toward a goal of producing 2 billion of the special PET plastic bottles by the end of ...
  5 days ago

• Bioplastics news: Cereplast, Futerro, Ecovio and Ingeo

  
  PakBec — Authority: 120
  Cereplast Expects U.S. Bio-Plastics Market to Top $10Bn by 2020 Cereplast announced this week that it expects the U.S. bio-plastics market to top $10 billion in sales by 2020. As of 2007, the U.S. bio-plastics market accounted for approximately $1 billion in sales. Some estimates point to bio-plastics ...
  1 week ago

• Daily Sprout

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 656
  Texas Homebuyers Go for Efficiency: “Texas is a national leader in the number of Energy Star qualified homes in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Four Texas markets earned spots on the top 20 list.” — San Antonio Business Journal Winners and Losers in the Upcoming ...
  1 week ago

• Daily Sprout

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Texas Homebuyers Go for Efficiency: “Texas is a national leader in the number of Energy Star qualified homes in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Four Texas markets earned spots on the top 20 list.” — San Antonio Business JournalWinners and Losers in the Upcoming Energy Shift: ...
  1 week ago

• US bioplastics reached $1bn in sales

  
  Green Chemicals — Authority: 429
  The U.S. bio-plastics market accounted for approximately $1 billion in sales in 2007 and is expected to reach $10 billion by 2020, according to bioplastic producer Cereplast . The company notes estimates pointing to bio-plastics capturing up to 30% of the total US plastics market within 10 years. Cereplast said that ...
  1 week ago

• Ford adds wheat straw plastic to a small corner of the 2010 Flex

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 710
  Filed under: Emerging Technologies , Ford Fords wheat straw bio-filled polypropylene - click to enlarge Soy seats arent Fords only way to introduce as many bio-materials as possible into a production vehicle. See also: Mazdas biofabric and Toyotas "ecological plastics. " Ford announced today that a ...
  1 week ago

• Ford to use wheat straw plastic in 2010

  
  Green Chemicals — Authority: 429
  Ford Motor announced today that it will use wheat-straw reinforced plastic in its vehicle Ford Flex in 2010. The company is working with plastic compounder A. Schulman of Akron, Ohio, as well as with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, in the development of wheat straw-based plastics formulation as part of ...
  1 week ago

• World Bioplastics to 2013

  
  PakBec — Authority: 120
  According to a new study from the US-based research group, Freedonia , global demand for bioplastics, which include plastic resins that are biodegradable or derived from plant-based sources, will rise more than fourfold to 890,000 metric tons in 2013. This extraordinary growth will be fuelled by a number of ...
  1 week ago

• New Bio-Based Glue Lets Cows Have their Cake and Eat it, Too

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 651
  Researcher Susan Sun of Kansas State University has an answer for all those hungry cows out there:  let them eat barrels.  Sun’s work on sustainable biomass adhesives has already lead to an edible barrel for cattle feed made with straw and soy adhesive.  More products are on the horizon, including a new ...
  1 week ago

• Bio-plastics could almost completely replace petroleum plastics

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 710
  Filed under: Emerging Technologies Aside from fuels, one of the biggest uses of petroleum is in the production of polymer materials like plastics. Just as automakers have attempted to reduce the use of petroleum-based fuels, researchers are also working on reducing the other dino juice applications. One of the ...
  1 week ago

• 90% bioplastic substitution possible

  
  Green Chemicals — Authority: 429
  A new study from the European Bioplastics and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) estimated that substitution potential of up to 90% of the total consumption of plastics by bio-based polymers are technically possible. Still, that estimate will not be fulfilled in the near future because of low ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bio-based plastics: New study forecasts enormous potential

  
  PakBec — Authority: 120
  The associations European Bioplastics and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence EPNOE published a jointly commissioned study on bio-based plastics today. Forecasts concerning capacity developments and technical substitution potentials are the focus of the investigations. The authors from Utrecht ...
  2 weeks ago

• Propos de Philippe Starck sur les biomatériaux : les réactions

  
  PakBec — Authority: 120
  En réaction au billet Bioplastique : Crime contre lhumanité ??? rapportant les propos de Philippe Starck à propos des biomatériaux, plusieurs professionnels ont réagi. Je partage avec vous quelques uns de leurs points de vue. L.B : Oui, nous sommes dans un monde où certains peuvent se permettre de ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bioplastique : Crime contre lhumanité ???

  
  PakBec — Authority: 120
  J’ai glané cette citation du designer français Philippe Starck sur le Blog Biopol . « … Dautres, plus à la mode, diront que nous devons utiliser le bioplastique. Le bioplastique implique que nous devrons supprimer des milliards dhectares darbres, de champs où les gens cultivent quelque ...
  2 weeks ago

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