Category: Biodegradable / compostable

• Model Legislative Toolkits

  

  There isn’t just one way to enact sensible and effective zero waste policies in the U.S.: every state, city, and community has its own needs. Just Zero has designed model legislative toolkits that are interactive and customizable to help you build a bill or bills across a range of interest areas.

  Global Plastic Laws

  October 14, 2024

  Resources, Advanced recycling / Chemical recycling, Biodegradable / compostable, Bioplastics / bio-based plastic, Incineration / Waste to Energy, Lifecycle Categories, Reduction, Topics of Concern, Transparency and Traceability, Waste Management

  beverage containers, bottle bill, chemical recycling, food waste, greenwashing, high-heat, incineration, Just Zero, Legislative Toolkit, Model, Model Policy, packaging, plastic waste, policy toolkit, recycling, reduction, Resource, single-use, SUPs, trash-burning, United States, zero waste

• What you need to know about the latest plastics ban in B.C.

  

  Single-use plastic regulations banning styrofoam takeout containers and charging for single-use plastic bags have been rolled out in British Columbia. These are the latest parts of the province’s regulations on plastics, which started rolling out in 2023 to align with federal regulations that are going into effect across the country. B.C., had delayed some aspects…

  Global Plastic Laws

  July 15, 2024

  Lifecycle Categories, Biodegradable / compostable, News, Reduction

  BC, biodegradable, British Columbia, Canada, compostable, film wrap, packaging, plastic ban, polyvinyl chlorde, PVC, shopping bags, single-use palstic reduction, styrofoam, SUP cutlery, takeout containers

• Bioplastics Are Trash: The Unforeseen Environmental Consequences of PLA from Production to Disposal

  

  This comprehensive report on Polylactic Acid (PLA), a popular bioplastic often touted as a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics, prepared by Eunomia Research & Consulting, in collaboration with Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC), provides an in-depth analysis of PLA’s environmental and social impacts, challenging prevailing perceptions of its sustainability.

  Global Plastic Laws

  February 28, 2024

  Topics of Concern, Biodegradable / compostable, Bioplastics / bio-based plastic, Design and Reuse, Resources

  bio-based plastics, bioplastics, compostable, Eunomia, false solution, PLA, Polyactic Acid, Resource, topic of concern

• Real vs. False Solutions to Plastic Pollution

  

  False solutions do not adequately or effectively address plastic pollution and its serious impacts. Corporations that profit by dealing in petrochemicals and plastics seek to offer up false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis so that they can distract and confuse the media and the public, which prevents actual progress in reducing plastic production.

  Global Plastic Laws

  October 11, 2023

  Resources, Advanced recycling / Chemical recycling, Biodegradable / compostable, Bioplastics / bio-based plastic, Incineration / Waste to Energy, News, Plastic offset, Recycled content, Topics of Concern, Waste to Fuel / Plastic to fuel

  advanced recycling, biodegradable, bioplastics, chemical recycling, compostable, downcycling, False solutions, gasification, greenwashing, incineration, neutrality, oxo-degradable, plasma arc, plastic credits, plastic offsets, plastic-to-fuel, pryolysis, recycling

• High incidence of false biodegradability claims related to single-use plastic utensils sold in Brazil

  

  Replacing single-use plastic with so-called biodegradable ones have emerged as part of suitable actions to reduce global environmental impacts. However, scientists are finding issues related to false claims and improper certification of single-use plastic utensils (SUP) claiming biodegradability. In this study, experts find so-called biodegradable products sold in supermarkets across Brazil are not actually biodegradable—undermining…

  Global Plastic Laws

  October 5, 2023

  Design and Reuse, Biodegradable / compostable, Resources

  biodegradability, Brazil, Brazilian market, design and reuse, false advertising, False solutions, greenwashing, oxopolymers, single-use cutlery, single-use plastic utensils, SUP