Industrial Applications of Renewable Plastics

5.2. Brief Inventory of Renewable Polymers

Research and development works, and continuous financial efforts bring results leading to new biomonomers opening the way for the most consumed plastics as polyethylene; PP; PVC; PET; and engineering plastics as polyamide, TPU, thermosets, and others.

Bioplastics are probably one of the smartest forms of plastics to satisfy sustainability concepts developed and then normalized (ISO 14000) to help the economic and industrial actors to think about ways able to improve or minimize the degradation of our earth.

Fig. 5.6 shows some bioplastics derived more or less directly from biomonomers.

Among others, let us quote without claiming to be exhaustive some industrial and research examples:

• Biopolyethylene.

• Thermoplastic ...