15 Apr 2020 --- Plastics technology company AIMPLAS has teamed with Spanish olive oil producer Olivarera de los Pedroches (OLIPE) to develop biodegradable and compostable packaging solutions from olive stone waste. The two-year GO-OLIVA project has created a plastic compound material from olive stones that can be processed by extrusion and injection molding into trays for bottles and caps for containers. The collaboration will now perform a behavioral study to validate the transformation processes before an environmental study will be carried out to determine the material’s compostability.
