The world's largest drinks companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have laid down ambitious plans to roll out 100% plant-based plastic bottles across the globe, triggering warnings from environmentalists who see a parallel with the ongoing controversy over biofuels.
Robbie Blake, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, sees a parallel between bioplastics and the ongoing controversy surrounding biofuels.
"Bioplastics raise exactly the same controversy about our over-consumption of land, and the damaging style of intensive plantation agriculture used to mass-produce the raw materials," Blake told EurActiv in emailed comments.
"At large scales – same as biofuels –, bioplastics and other bio-based products risk competing for land with food, causing indirect land use changes, meaning more deforestation and conversion of wild areas into ploughed fields."
Robbie Blake, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, sees a parallel between bioplastics and the ongoing controversy surrounding biofuels.
"Bioplastics raise exactly the same controversy about our over-consumption of land, and the damaging style of intensive plantation agriculture used to mass-produce the raw materials," Blake told EurActiv in emailed comments.
"At large scales – same as biofuels –, bioplastics and other bio-based products risk competing for land with food, causing indirect land use changes, meaning more deforestation and conversion of wild areas into ploughed fields."
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