Project Details:

Biodegradable Polymers

Project No.:	430-5-93
Start date:	1993-01-01
End date:	2000-12-31
Division:	Polymer Division

As a first step a workshop on biodegradable polymers and recycling "Controlled Life-Cycle of Polymeric Materials, Biodegradable Polymers and Recycling" was organized in 1994. Recent advances in biodegradable polymer synthesis, production, biodegradation, environmental degradation and recycling were presented by leading scientists in these fields. The consensus was that a sound polymer waste management would require complementary practices of conversion, recycling, incineration and biodegradation/bioconversion (biological recycling).

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The most recent activity and meeting took place in the context ofthe 5th International Scientific Workshop on "BiodegradablePlastics and Polymers", June 9-13, 1998 in Stockholm.
From an earlier meeting in 1997, this group contributed to a volumepublished as Macromol.Symp. 130(1998). Another report in the Macromol. Symp. will bepublished in Vol.135. The WP also held a special meeting to organize a groupof the European scientists for Biodegradable Polymers. The groupis planning work on bioenvironmental polymers: the total environmentwhich can be renewable polymers as well as biodegradable.
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