Who is the BPI and who are its members?
The BPI is short for Biodegradable Products Institute. It is a multi-stakeholder association of key individuals and groups from government, industry and academia, which promotes the use, and recovery of biodegradable polymeric materials. BPI will accomplish this goal through education, adoption of scientifically based standards and cooperative activities with other organizations in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Its members include leading resin suppliers (such as BASF, Cargill Dow Polymers, DuPont and Novamont); biodegradable product manufacturers and distributors (such asBioBag Canada, BioGroup US, BIOTA Spring Water, BioSphere Industries, Farnell Packaging, NAT-UR Inc & Polargruppen A/S); governmental officials (Mass. Dept of Environmental Protection) and the scientific community (Ramani Narayan-Chairman of ASTM Subcommittee D20.96 on Environmentally Degradable Plastics).
