date:Aug 22, 2012
, of which food and beverage packaging currently accounts for around 70% of demand.
According to Carus, demand for PLA bioplastics will increase in coming years as the material becomes cheaper and improvements in packaging properties lead to an increase in the number of possible applications.
Production increase, price decrease
In terms of food and beverage packaging, there are currently only a certain number of firms using PLA bioplastics mainly because it is more expensive than polypropyle