Industry News: Packaging Strategies Says Biopolymers Underperform, Are Expensive
Packaging Strategies’ new report, Biopolymers for Commodity Packaging, states that many of today’s bioplastics generally underperform and are more expensive when compared with petroleum-based plastics. Despite these cost-performance factors, the study says, the use of biopolymers in commodity packaging will continue to grow for a widening array of applications.
“There is an initial allure to the idea of biodegradable plastics made from renewable resources until one considers that almost all these materials are overpriced and underperform when compared with standard petroleum-based polymers,” says the report’s primary author, Gordon Bockner, president of Business Development Associates.
The report also presents data on what it calls actual versus previously overstated growth for biopolymers. It also outlines which companies will produce the expected 1.5 million tons of biopolymers projected to be in production by 2011. Visit www.packstrat.com for more information.
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