According to the Technical Report 15392, drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 249 of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) in August 2009, ‘bio-based plastics’ are plastics derived from biomass. ‘Plastics’, as laid down in EN ISO 472, are materials that contain as an essential ingredient a high polymer and which at some stage in their processing into finished products can be shaped by flow

Kabasci, S., 2014, Bio-Based Plastics: Materials and Applications, First Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published.

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Bio-based plastics consist (partly) of bio-based (renewable) raw materials.

Endres, H.J., Siebert-Raths, A., 2011, Engineering Biopolymers Markets, Manufacturing, Properties and Applications, Carl Hanser, München.

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