AWARE POLIMI GROUP PAPER “THE CHALLENGES OF BIOPLASTICS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT”

The AWARE Group (Assessment on WAste and REsourses) belonging to the DICA Department (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) of the Politecnico di Milano, has recently published an editorial in the journal “Waste Management & Research” that frames the current situation regarding the management of bioplastics and suggests some strategies to tackle the problems identified.

The enormous growth in the use of bioplastics, in the packaging sector but not only, appears to be a specific Italian peculiarity, resulting from a particular interpretation of the SUP Directive on single-use plastics. However, the waste management system is showing a number of critical aspects linked to this “new” material, which is now found in almost all collected flows, and in particular in organic and plastic waste.

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