| Bioplastics 101 workshop gives overview of suppliers |
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About fifty delegates attended an invitation-only workshop in Toronto on April 2, organized by the Ontario BioAuto Council. The aim the Bioplastics 101 workshop was to get executives at plastics processing companies thinking about the possibilities of bioplastics. Craig Crawford, who became the Council's CEO this January, told the gathering that bioplastics currently make up less than one per cent of worldwide annual plastics consumption. However, use of bioplastics is growing because of increasing prices for petroleum-based resins and continued advances in the performance of bioplastics. Crawford said bioplastics have the technical potential to take over 5-10 per cent of the plastics market. Worldwide capacity for biopolymers was 350,000 tonnes/year in 2007. This is projected to grow to almost 800,000 tonnes/year in 2010. Bookmark this page!      |
| Source: | canplastics.com |
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