NatureWorks partners with New Plastics Economy initiative
The strategy includes guidelines for new types of packaging, improved technology and processes for re-use and innovations in material types and characteristics.
NatureWorks, LLC, Minnetonka, Minn., finalized a 3-year partnership agreement the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy initiative.
The UK-based foundation’s initiative brings together key stakeholders to rethink and redesign the global plastics system, starting with packaging. The chief tenets of the plan call for decoupling plastics from fossil feedstocks by exploring and adopting renewably sourced feedstocks and drastically reducing leakage of plastics into natural systems, all amidst the broader context of creating an effective after-use plastics economy by improving the economics and uptake of recycling, re-use and controlled biodegradation for appropriate targeted applications.