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EU Project Seeks to Convert Organic Solid Waste Into Bioplastics

A recently launched project will create chemical building blocks, biopolymers and additives using the urban biorefinery concept to convert organic components of municipal waste into bioplastics. Named Urbiofin, the European project seeks to offer a feasible and more sustainable alternative to the current treatment of organic municipal solid waste. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Wageningen, Netherlands) focuses on two specific topics in this project: The production of medium-chain-length fatty acids and derived PHAs via microbial fermentation and the scale-up, efficient extraction and novel commercial applications of these bioplastics.

As a building block for high-quality products, sustainable fatty acids have interesting market applications, said Hans Mooibroek, Project Manager at Wageningen Food & Biobased Research. “In this project we are focusing on the conversion of fatty acids to PHAs.

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» Publication Date: 26/10/2017

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