People and Groups

Metabolix
The by now well-known photo appearing at the Metabolix, Inc. booth, showing microbes turning sugar into polymer, seemed a far cry from what most of us had in mind when we pictured resin manufacturing.

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INDUSTRY GROUPS

SPI's Bioplastics Council is a special interest group focused on the development of bioplastics as an integral part of the plastics industry through:

  1. Educating the plastics industry, government and value chain.
  2. Articulating clear and consistent descriptions of the different bioplastics options.
  3. Providing strategic advice to the plastics industry, government and the value chain and promoting harmonization of environmental policies.