bioplastic bags and film: how the market grow

Bioplastics application in Thailand: How the market grow

Mr. Somsak Borrisuttanakul

Honorable Chairman

Thai Bioplastic Industries Association (TBIA)

CEO

TPBI Public Company Limited

TPBI Background on Bioplastics

Regulations and waste management in European countries

Consumer behavior and waste management

How to grow bioplastic in Thailand

Outline

Supplying bag and film for more than

60,000 MT / year globally

More over than 10 years supplying

biodegradable/compostable bag to

European countries.

Dedicated production line for bioplastic

products

TPBI Background on Bioplastics

France

UK

Italy

EC/99/31/EC – landfill waste

United Kingdom

EC/94/62/EC – packaging and packaging waste

Italy

France

Regulations and waste management in European countries

Biodegradable waste, such as food waste or garden waste, quantity should be decreased from total amount in year 1995 by 50% in 2013 and 65% in 2020

Encouraging the separation and collection of biodegradable waste

Force the laws and regulations to support this directive

European Council directive 1999/31/EC on landfill waste

*http://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/italy-reluctant-to-tackle-illegal-landfills/*http://www.enviterre.com/services/

Landfill allowance trading scheme (LATS)

Weekly food waste collections

Improving recycling schemes

Education: Face to face conversation

Each area council management

*Municipal waste management in The United Kingdom, European Environmental Agency, FEB 2013*http://cleanstreets.westminster.gov.uk/general-waste/

UK Waste Management

*UK Statistic on Waste, Department for Environment Food & Rural affairs, AUG 2016

UK Waste Management: Biodegradable municipal waste to landfill

Ban the sale of shopping bags not made of paper, natural fibers, polyamide fibers and polymers

Lightweight plastic carrier bag is the plastic bag which is thicker than 50 micron (2015 amendment)

Consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bag not exceed 90pcs/person in DEC 2019 and 40pcs/person in DEC 2025 (2015 amendment)

European Council directive 1994/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste

*http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-halve-plastic-bag-use-by-2019/

Allow 2 types of disposable carrier bags

EN13432 certified carrier bags

Over 100 micron for food use

Over 60 micron for other use

*Plastic Consult - Milano

Italy single-use bag ban (no.28/2012)

PE Carrier bags ban in 2016

Home compostable with over 30% biobasedcontent is allowed

PE with over 50 micron is allowed

PE Fruit and Vegetable bag ban in 2017

Home compostable with over 30% biobasedcontent is allowed

France

*http://www.thecivilengineer.org/news-center/latest-news/item/983-france-bans-common-plastic-bags-from-supermarkets

• Key success factors for growing bioplastic bags

• Consumer behavior that affected by regulation

By decreasing the biodegradable waste to landfill, the biodegradable bin liner

was adopting by consumer and city council to use as a choice for organic

waste collection.

• Closed-loop waste management

By each area waste management, the biodegradable waste had been

converted into fertilizer and energy

Consumer behavior and waste management

Waste management system

Waste separation – mechanism to drive people to separate the waste

Waste collection – entire process cost have been evaluate correctly

Composting site

How to grow bioplastics in Thailand

Price of bioplastic product

Domestic bioplastic material supplies are available

Compounding technologies

Processing technologies

Comparable replacement (eg. Food packaging)

How to grow bioplastics in Thailand

*http://www.ti-films.com/en/nativia/products

Current Bioplastics application in Thailand

*http://www.ti-films.com/en/nativia/products

Flexible packaging

Shopping bag

Bioplastic coatedPaper cup

PLA yogurt cup

PLA coffee cup

Thank you for your attention

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