Reports on bio-based plastics

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• Support for bio-based feedstock in plastic packaging analysis under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (Carus, M., Berg, C. v., Skoczinski, P., Porc, O. et al, 2026)
• Plastics materials flows in the EU-27 and their environmental impacts (A. Amadei, S. Venturelli and S. Manfredi, 2025)
• Substituting conventional products with bioeconomy innovations: analysis of potential environmental impacts using a Life Cycle Assessment perspective (T. Sinkko, C. Casonato, A. Valenzano, P. Wierzgala, and G. Listorti, 2025)
• The potential of emerging bio-based products to reduce environmental impacts (E.A.R. Zuiderveen, K.J.J. Kuipers, C. Caldeira, et al., 2023)
• Sustainability of biobased plastics – Analysis focusing on CO₂ for policies (CE Delft, 2023)
• Paving the way for biobased materials: a roadmap for the market introduction of PHAs (K. Molenveld, W. Post, S. F. Ferreira, G. de Sévaux, and M. Hartstra, 2022)
• Biobased plastic – Sustainable sourcing and content – Final report (European Commission: Directorate-General for Environment, Trinomics, Wageningen and Wood, 2022)
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of alternative feedstocks for plastics production - Part 1 (S. Nessi, T. Sinkko, C. Bulgheroni et al., 2021)
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of alternative feedstocks for plastics production - Part 2 (S. Nessi, T. Sinkko, C. Bulgheroni et al., 2021)
• Towards circular carbo-chemicals – the metamorphosis of petrochemicals (J. P. Lange, Energy & Environmental Science, 2021)
• The development and challenges of poly (lactic acid) and poly (glycolic acid) (K. J. Jem and B. Tan, Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research, 2020)
• Biodegradable and compostable plastics — challenges and opportunities (EEA, Briefing No. 09, 2020)
• Plant-based materials and transitioning to a circular economy (R. Shogren, D. Wood, W. Orts, and G. Glenn, Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2019)
• Bio-based and biodegradable plastics: facts and figures – focus on food packaging in the Netherlands (van den Oever, M., Molenveld, K., van der Zee, M., & Bos, H., 2017)