Bio-based Plastics - A Building Block for the Circular Economy?

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Authors

  • Sebastian Spierling
  • Carolin Röttger
  • Venkateshwaran Venkatachalam
  • Marina Mudersbach
  • Christoph Herrmann
  • Hans Josef Endres

External Research Organisations

  • University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover (HsH)
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)573-578
Number of pages6
JournalProcedia CIRP
Volume69
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event25th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, , CIRP LCE 2018 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 30 Apr 2018 → 2 May 2018

Abstract

Bio-based plastics have been identified as a promising alternative to conventional plastics with regards to finite fossil resources and climate change. With emerging novel bio-based plastics and 70% of its market share in short life cycle packaging applications, the end-of-life options (recycling, anaerobic and aerobic digestion, energy recovery etc.) as well as the resource circulation have been moved into the spotlight and have to be assessed. This paper will provide an insight into the bio-based plastics in the context of circular economy and gives an overview on its status and potential future development. The focus is set on the assessment of the potential environmental impacts of the different end-of-life options and resource circulation of bio-based plastics with the help of life cycle assessment.

Keywords

    Bio-based plastics, End-of-life, Life cycle assessment, Resource circulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sustainable Development Goals

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Bio-based Plastics - A Building Block for the Circular Economy? / Spierling, Sebastian; Röttger, Carolin; Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran et al.
In: Procedia CIRP, Vol. 69, 2018, p. 573-578.

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Spierling, S, Röttger, C, Venkatachalam, V, Mudersbach, M, Herrmann, C & Endres, HJ 2018, 'Bio-based Plastics - A Building Block for the Circular Economy?', Procedia CIRP, vol. 69, pp. 573-578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.017
Spierling, S., Röttger, C., Venkatachalam, V., Mudersbach, M., Herrmann, C., & Endres, H. J. (2018). Bio-based Plastics - A Building Block for the Circular Economy? Procedia CIRP, 69, 573-578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.017
Spierling S, Röttger C, Venkatachalam V, Mudersbach M, Herrmann C, Endres HJ. Bio-based Plastics - A Building Block for the Circular Economy? Procedia CIRP. 2018;69:573-578. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.017
Spierling, Sebastian ; Röttger, Carolin ; Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran et al. / Bio-based Plastics - A Building Block for the Circular Economy?. In: Procedia CIRP. 2018 ; Vol. 69. pp. 573-578.
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