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Although the topics are related a merger may be confusing. Biodegradable plastics may or may not be produced from sustainable biological sources - BASF's Ecoflex and Arkema's Rilsan PA11 are both derived from petrochemicals yet are inherently biodegradable (without the use of any heavy metal additives) Bioplastics are polymers derived from biological - and generally sustainable sources. But Bioplastics need not be biodegradable. I suggest you keep the two topics separate but linked. -- 80.42.18.231
As far as the definition goes here are some:
Either biobased or biodegradable:
Solely biobased:
I vote for the Britannica/M-W definition of biobased, and so think it should not be merged, unless we're infringing on the territory of the wiktionary.Zylstra (talk) 09:16, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
What if they were merged as an article that lists bioplastic and biodegradable plastic as types of biology-related plastics? 914ian915 (talk) 01:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps the title should be changed to "biobased plastic" or "biobased polymer" to make the distinction clearer. It is an important distinction because, at least in theory, certain petrobased polymers can completely biodegrade[1], and biobased polymers could be made non-biodegradable with enough treatment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MadderChemist (talk • contribs) 23:28, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
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The article says : "After ~100,000 years all the carbon-14 present in the original organic material will have undergone radioactive decay". 100,000 is I think too much rounded of. 60,000 would be better:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating 84.35.136.98 (talk) 08:16, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Moved some material for structure regarding environmental impacts into own section. It was cluttering the introduction and an ancillary point (at least as it was made). Also a bit lengthy, so I broke up long sentences into shorter ones and removed some unnecessary details. Halogenated 18:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
I've suppressed the first sentence which said tha tadditive bioplastics degraded very well, beacause it is controversial, and I personnaly think it's false (tatters of plastics stays in the ground). I couldn't found references to this so I didn't put it and I just suppressed the sentence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Letuffe (talk • contribs) 10:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
What kind of sources would be acceptable for citation on this page? 914ian915 (talk) 20:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Vincotte is a certifying organisation, not a bioplastic "main maker". I removed it from the list. Biostarch (talk) 03:57, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Biopolymer is just repetition of this article. It is almost completely a discussion of bioplastics, with a few lines thrown in about non-plastic "biopolymers" (which are just natural chains, like protien/DNA). NJGW (talk) 15:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
bioplastics were the original plastics, there is a lot of very interesting history of bioplastics in this book "Alcohol Can Be a Gas!" see page: http://www.permaculture.com/ cheers, Jamie
Removed many of the Ad's for composting Callsign (talk) 20:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC) too much information that is not correct, corrected EN13432, which is a 90 day test not a 180 test, fixed numerous errors around testing and composting terminology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Callsign (talk • contribs) 19:31, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Plastic from Algae: The First Step Toward a Fish-Friendly Gyre? by Chris Ladd April 29, 2010 12:08 PM Popular Mechanics
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There are quite a few dead links in the article and it would be nice to see them resolved.Bradyjs bradyjs (talk) 16:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I mentioned Shrilk[1] in the see also section , a page needs to be made on it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.142.202 (talk) 11:32, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I want to revive the aborted discussions about cleaning up this article. Bioplastic in my view refers to to the origins of the material, and this content needs to be merged with biopolymer. Biodegradable plastic refers to product end of life options and all text about compostability needs to be moved from this page to that one. Keitsist (talk) 16:55, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
The IUPAC definition of "bioplastic" contains a note recommending that "biobased polymer" be used instead of bioplastic. Gred Sixteen (talk) 20:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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I think the section on cost is too simplistic since it just directly compares the price between petroplastics and bioplastics, not taking into acount the price benefits it can bring.
For instance, when using bioplastics as the material for food packaging, the whole can be direclty sold as fertilizer. When using petroplastics for food packaging, this isn't possible and requires prior seperation, making the whole a financially unattractive option. So, for food manufacturers, using bioplastics rather than petroplastics would be, financially seen, the most sensible approach. KVDP (talk) 16:05, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I feel it's always important to make sure that shoppers are biodegradable. KenSharp (talk) 11:21, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
The history section likely should be formatted as a timeline replacing the subsequent summary timeline section. The references between the two sections are unclear at first glance and the prose section is dense and somewhat hard to navigate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjbraun (talk • contribs) 06:12, 11 October 2018 (UTC)