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2. Main applications for these biopolymers
Biopolymers have an increasing number of industrial applications (table 2 ), due to a trend in industry to substitute petroleum-derived polymers, whose reserves are not inexhaustible, with biodegradable compounds. These are known as bioplastics. . However, this idea is not new, since as early as 1930, Ford used soy proteins to produce car interior parts and then body parts. Today, however, bioplastics are being given fresh impetus by the difficulties of recycling our ever-increasing waste, the need to valorize agricultural by-products and concerns about increasingly expensive oil supplies.
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Standards
- Emballage - Exigences relatives aux emballages valorisables par compostage et biodégradation - Programme d'essai et critères d'évaluation de l'acceptation finale - NF EN 13432 - Novembre 2000
- Matériaux biodégradables pour l'agriculture et l'horticulture - Produits de paillage - Exigences et méthodes d'essai des emballages - NF U52-001 - Février 2005
Organizations
ADEME http://www.ademe.fr
Bioplastics Club http://www.european-bioplastics.org/php/id=371
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Department for Agrobiotechnology IFA - Tulln Institute for Natural...
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