17 Aug 2018 --- European Bioplastics believe that EU Member States will now be able to comprehensively acknowledge the benefits and the functionality of certified compostable plastic after a successful demonstration of the environmental benefits of the material. Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) succeeded in an interdisciplinary study to demonstrate that soil microorganisms metabolically utilized the carbon in the PBAT polymer both for energy production and also to build up microbial biomass.
