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The Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative (SBC) is a network of organizations working together to spur the introduction and use of biomaterials that are sustainable from cradle to cradle.
Promote Sustainable Plastics
Early Adopters Using and Composting Bioproducts
One benefit of bioplastics is their ability to be composted. Bioplastic food packaging has the additional potential to help capture the 30 million tons of food waste now landfilled or incinerated [US EPA, 2006 data]. Little data are available on how bioplastics can best be labeled and collected for composting, who is composting bioplastics, and what their experience has been. By documenting existing practices and lessons learned, we hope bioplastic composting will leap from the early adopters to the early majority.
We have identified more than 20 venues, communities, or corporations utilizing and composting at least one type of bioplastic product.
Below we present initial data on five of these venues:
- Boulder's Farmers Market
- Seattle's Cedar Grove Compost Site
- USDA Whitten Cafeteria Pilot
- CA State University's Monterey Bay Composting Pilot
- DC Green Festival
Coming soon: information on San Francisco and the US Capitol.
