Envir­on­ment­al impact assess­ments of innov­at­ive bio-based product

The BIOS­PRI Study sup­ports the devel­op­ment of the revised EU Bioeconomy Strategy and con­sists of three work pack­ages on 1) LCAs and envir­on­ment­al foot­print of bio-based products, 2) Com­mer­cial and Fin­an­cial Suc­cess stor­ies of bio-based products and 3) Iden­ti­fic­a­tion of Top 20 innov­at­ive bio-based products. This report deliv­ers on the first pack­age and provides sci­ence-based facts and evid­ences on the envir­on­ment­al impacts of innov­at­ive bio-based products, to sup­port the future bio-eco­nomy policy and decision-mak­ing at the EU level, and to sup­port the imple­ment­a­tion of the plastics strategy. It con­cerns mostly plastic products and com­pares these with pet­ro­chem­ic­al plastic coun­ter­parts. Sev­en LCA (life cycle assess­ment) case stud­ies were car­ried out cov­er­ing three major com­mer­cial­ised bio-based poly­mers, namely i) bio-based PET (poly­ethyl­ene tere­ph­thal­ate, case study ​“Bever­age Bottles”), ii) PLA (poly­lact­ic acid, case stud­ies ​“Single-use cups”, ​“Single-use Cut­lery” and ​“Pack­aging films”) and iii) starch plastics (case stud­ies ​“Clips”, ​“Mulch films” and ​“Car­ri­er bags”). Source: European Com­mis­sion, Pub­lic­a­tion, 25.02.2019 For more inform­a­tion please click here.