High-Flyer Bioplastics

Cologne, 16. January 2014 – Offering a variety of articles from bioplastic the internet marketplace for sustainable and ecological products offers an alternative to plastic produced from petroleum. And thus takes up on several sustainability issues at the same time. Firstly, the increasing scarcity of resources, which brings increasing purchase prices for the raw material oil used to produce plastic. On the other hand, most of all the problem of environmental pollution and health hazards by conventional plastic products.

Bioplastic is made from renewable raw materials, the CO2 emissions are much lighter. The material is cleared after 10 years instead of 500, some sorts are compostable. Bioplastic is free of harmful plasticizers, bisphenol A and bisphenol B, and thus harmless to health. It also eliminates the absorption of tiny plastic particles through the skin or food.

Wide range offer of bioplastics

„There will be no more a world without plastic.“ knows Annette Husmann, owner of Eco- and Upcycling-Market. If you look around in your own home or in the supermarket, you will quickly find out that plastic is predominant. Packaging, kitchen and household items, everywhere the practical material is to be found.

Therefore, the qualified businesswoman recommends switching to bioplastics in addition to a multiple use of conventional plastic disposable articles and replacing plastic containers with glass containers. „I am very happy that we have different well-known suppliers of bioplastics products in the program,“ says the marketplace operator. The range includes, for example, storage boxes of ajaa!, kitchen and household helpers from Biodora, children-s toys from BioFactur, pens from Biowert and freezer bags of NaKu.

As a special incentive for newcomers to the topic Eco- and Upcycling-Market offers a bioplastic breakfast set of Biodora in the shop of promavis for a short time at a special price. Included are two cups, two cutting boards, two egg cups, two egg spoons, a butter dish, a honey spoon and a bowl with a lid.

Growth trend bioplastic

In the biomaterial bioplastic is observed a veritable high-altitude flight. Even the experts were surprised by the latest growth forecasts for bioplastics. By 2016, the global market is expected to quintuple its production volume to nearly 6 million tons., according to the forecast. The annual growth rate is approximately 20 percent.