00:00 Illegality, dumping of prices on products from the Far East, a drop in consumption,
00:12 growth of compostable materials and misinformation are the issues photographed by the tenth report
00:17 on the Italian bioplastics and compostables sector, presented in Rome during the first
00:21 Italian forum of the sector. With a rate of 56.9%, less than 2% compared to the past,
00:27 the first drop in the sector is recorded.
00:30 We have a rate of 56.9% which is 2% less than the previous year.
00:40 Why? Because the organic fraction has worsened, as the Italian Composting Consortium President
00:48 Lella Miccolis said, and we have to work together because if the wet collection is dirty
00:54 and the organic fraction is difficult to recycle, the compostable packaging is also difficult to recycle.
01:05 We have to work together so that this collection is not only spread but is done well,
01:14 and therefore we will work with public administrations, with composters, with all those who are called
01:21 stakeholders, because this wet collection works well and therefore the recycling of compostable packaging
01:27 will also work well.
01:30 According to some of the Italian norm, the greenwashing spectrum on the market is increasing.
01:34 Plates, glasses, or even traditional plastics would be prohibited by the European Relegation Law
01:39 2019-2020, but they continue to be marketed simply because they are self-declared reusable.
01:46 As far as bioplastics are concerned, the problem is related to the foreign products that are collected in the organic.
01:56 As bioplastics, what we are doing is to carry out checks on the legality and correspondence of compostable products.
02:06 We have signed a protocol with Biorepac, with Assobioplastics and the TÜV, so this is the first step
02:13 towards a quality of bioplastics in the differentiated collection of the organic.
02:18 The link between the use of compostable materials, correct differentiated collection of organic waste
02:22 and transformation into compost must not be underestimated.
02:25 It is now up to the possibility of winning the most important environmental, Italian and European challenges.
02:30 It is a table that goes to fill those gaps that I have heard about and also to identify new strategies
02:38 regarding the recycling of bioplastics or also regarding new technologies to address new production plants.
02:48 So the topics are many and they are absolutely important to give an answer to a sector that is absolutely strategic for our country.
02:58 So soon we will call this table to be able to carry out the necessary procedures for this category.
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