New call on sustainable plastics and competitiveness

Plastics are both cheap and easy to make, and their uses almost unlimited. But those very advantages represent a disadvantage from an environmental point of view: it costs less, for example, to make new plastic than to reuse discarded products. In April, Mistra invited applications for a new programme to make the plastics sector more sustainable and the Swedish processing industry more competitive. At the beginning of 2016, responsibility for the programme was entrusted to a research group at Lund University, with a brief that includes developing carbon-neutral bioplastics.