The industry can submit information on substances of very high concern in their articles to ECHA's SCIP database. The aim is to make product recycling safer and improve information on hazardous chemicals in products.
The prestigious Global Bioplastics Award, presented annually at the end of the first day of the European Bioplastics conference, was won this year by Bio4Self, a consortium - co-ordinated by Centexbel - of research institutes and companies collaborating on a project to develop self-reinforced composites based on PLA fibres.
