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confirmed that proper management and attenuate the problems that come from plastics themselves are at our reach.
is the only way to address this These green plastics have now put their steps on the ground firmly and be
environmental problem until the final considered as the good alternatives for conventional plastics, if not better. Together
episode. with the proper management by all stakeholders, for conventional plastics that
have been elaborated earlier and the green plastics, then, both plastic groups will
Innovative Green Plastics therefore serve, facilitate, and ease our daily activities for so long. And only this
When we have clearly seen so many happening will complement the intention of Prof. Thulin who invented plastic and
benefits of plastics together with the delivered them to the world only to serve his purpose of saving the tree and better
environmental problems that arise our blue planet forever.
from the usage of plastics, we then
have the question, “Can we as well
have environment-friendly plastics?”. More Information Service Info C014
Of course, there is such good plastic
for our world. As scientists have seen
that there should be better plastics,
they have innovated with more
friendly environmental plastic, or what
we can call green plastics. These
green plastics can be classified into
2 categories as follows:
1. Bioplastics, where it comprises
of 2 groups as follows:
• Compostable bioplastics that
comply with bioplastic international
standards such as EN 13432,
ASTM D 6400, ISO 17088, AS 4736,
and so on.
• Biobased bioplastics comply
with other bioplastic international
standards such as ASTM D 6866,
CEN/TS 16137, ISO 16620 and so
on, which will be used to control
various details.
2. Post-consumer recycled
plastics (PCR), comprising at least 2
groups as follows:
• Plastics that are retrieved from
the ocean and nearby areas,
collectively called Ocean bound
plastics that should be complied with
the relevant international standard
such as the Global Recycled Standard
(GRS).
• Plastics that are once being
used by the consumer and then are
properly managed and complied with
the same standard as Ocean bound
plastics, called post-consumer
recycled plastics (PCR).
As such, from the information on
working properties of plastics that are
explained before i.e. the competitive
cost, reusable and recyclable features
and the most important one on the
safety concern for food contact
material has confirmed that the
consumer will use plastic in our daily
lives for so long, but the development
and innovation of plastics to alleviate

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