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Death of Animals Caused by Plastic
German opposition to "Compostable" plastics - March 2014
OPA comments on "Lets Bag It" meeting - February 2014
OPA writes to Margrete Auken MEP - 20th February 2014
Environmental Audit Committee of UK Parliament - OPA Evidence 9th December 2013
Environmental Audit Committee of UK Parliament - OPA Supplementary Evidence 8th January 2014
Lobbyists risk making fools of French Deputies over plastic bags - January 2014
OPA questions DEFRA tender on biodegradable plastic bags - January 2014
Degradation of oxo-biodegradable Plastics in the Marine Environment - expert report
RECYCLING - Roediger review of report by TCKT for EuPC - 5 December 2013
OPA Responds to EuPC Claims on Recyclability - November 2013
The Relevance of Degradable Plastic - November 2013
Plastic Bag Bans and Taxes - November 2013
"Enzymatic and Microbiodegradable" Additives Challenged - November 2013
OPA member issues challenge to EuPC on recycling - September 2013
Response to call by EuPC to ban oxo-biodegradable plastic - September 2013
Plastics in the Marine Environment
Why bio-based is the wrong technology
Response to "EuPC Answers to the Eu Green Paper on plastic waste in the environment" - June 2013
EU Green Paper - OPA Response - March 2013
Bad news for biobased "compostable" plastics from German government study - March 2013
Italian Plastics Law "Seriously Flawed" and Could Be Illegal - February 2013
US Govt warns on "Compostable" Plastic - February 2013
New legislation in Pakistan requires plastic to be Oxo-Biodegradable - February 2013
Ontario plastic bag ban challenge - November 2012
Response to 'European Bioplastics, Environmental Communications Guide' - September 2012
Consumers hit back on plastic bags (Link by kind permission of www.iomtoday.co.im) - February 2012
UAE bans plastic products - Except Oxo-Bio plastics - February 2012
Executive Summary on Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic - December 2011
Is bio-based plastic really renewable? - December 2011
OPA contributes to EU workshop on Marine Litter - December 2011
OPA publishes Position Paper on Timescale for Degradation of Oxo-biodegradable Plastic
UK Environment Agency publishes a Life Cycle Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags - 2011
Good news for Oxo-Biodegradable plastic from UK Government LCA - 2011
Scientific dossier on oxo-biodegradable plastics - October 2011
How many football pitches are needed to make green plastic? - August 2011
OPA Response to FPA (Flexible Packaging Association) on Oxo-Biodegradable Additives - July 2010
Advertising standards authority rules in favour of d2w plastic - April 2010
OPA Member responds to Loughborough Report - March 2010
STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR TELMO OJEDA on LOUGHBOROUGH REPORT - March 2010
New Position-Paper on Incineration
OPA response to AFOR (formerly the Composting Association) - March 2010
Leading environmentalist backs degradable plastics - February 2010
Important oxo-biodegradable statement from the respected laboratory, Smithers RAPRA - February 2010
More news
The Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association exists to provide information to encourage greater understanding of oxo-biodegradable plastic technology and the role it can play in protecting the environment for future generations. The Association continues to grow - it now has 87 members in 72 countries. Members are manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and commercial end-users of oxo-biodegradable plastic. It is proud to have on its Scientific Advisory Board some of the world's most distinguished experts in this field of chemistry.
Oxo-biodegradable plastic technology provides the safest, most cost-effective method of degrading plastic, with control over the degradation time.
Plastic is a familiar component of modern living, used in all sorts of packaging and household and commercial applications. Whilst the benefits of low cost, light weight, strength, imperviousness to gas and water, transparency, sealability, and printability are highly regarded, the very strength and durability which makes plastic such a useful and economic material can be a major problem when disposal is required. Plastic waste can accumulate in the environment for decades.
Science has now found the solution to this problem: Oxo-biodegradable plastic.
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