Скачать или смотреть CHAMPION Webinar 3 - Bio-polymer biodegradability: State-of-play and examples from practice - Part 1

This video is Part 1 of a recording of the CHAMPION Project Webinar series - Webinar 3:
"Bio-polymer biodegradability: State-of-play and examples from practice", held online on 12 October 2022.

Biodegradability is a highly desirable product characteristic, but often only after the useful life of the product - how to best balance this when designing new bio-based molecules or products? And the questions don’t end there: how to measure biodegradability, how long can biodegradation acceptably take, what is a reasonable minimum standard requirement, what should the role of legislation be, when is biodegradation complete or is it sufficient when a molecule breaks down into some intermediates, what to do if some intermediates are more persistent than the original product or worse, if intermediates can be considered microplastics? This one-hour webinar will give an overview of the latest insights on these questions and show examples of what it means in practice, for the novel aza-Michael polymeric bio-materials that the CHAMPION project has been developing as well as other common bio-based materials.

Maarten van der Zee (Wageningen Food & Biobased Research) has been a researcher on biodegradation and bio-based materials for over 30 years, and presents the key aspects of measuring biodegradability and current issues. He also discusses these in relation to standardization of evaluation methods and policy development (the European plastics strategy).

For further information and future webinars, visit www.champion-project.eu

The CHAMPION project has received funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 887398. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Bio Based Industries Consortium.