{"id":7004,"date":"2025-06-25T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:04:12","slug":"open-access-now-third-generation-biodegradable-plastics-a-complementary-strategy-to-tackle-the-marine-litter-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/open-access-now-third-generation-biodegradable-plastics-a-complementary-strategy-to-tackle-the-marine-litter-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEN ACCESS now: Third-generation biodegradable plastics\u2014A complementary strategy to tackle the marine litter problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center fusion-flex-justify-content-center\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\" style=\"max-width:35%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" title=\"Biodegredable\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-6804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Biodegredable.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>June 25, 2025<\/strong><b>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The amount of plastic produced worldwide has reached 400 million metric tonnes in 2022. Estimated 3\u20135% of this amount ends up in the environment, where it poses significant threats to ecosystems and biodiversity. Littering, a growing global challenge, requires a combination approach to tackle its causes and mitigate its impact. There are different strategies to combat littering. But even with immediate and concerted action to reduce consumption of plastics, more than 700 million tonnes of plastic waste will cumulatively enter the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems until 2040. Waste management systems, even if improved, do not have sufficient capacity at the global level to cope with the huge mass of plastics entering the environment. Especially for plastic, which will foreseeable and inevitably enter the environment, where it can persist for hundreds of years (\u2018forever\u2019 plastics), a solution is needed. Biodegradable plastics, that meet the criteria of \u2018Safe and Sustainable by Design\u2019 (SSbD) offer innovation perspectives and can be a complementary strategy to tackle the marine litter problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are very pleased to announce that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leibniz-zmt.de\/de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research \u2013 Leibniz-Zentrum f\u00fcr Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT)<\/a> has granted open access to our joint article \u201eThird-generation biodegradable plastics \u2013 A complementary strategy to tackle the marine litter problem\u201c due to high demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lahl, R., Bleischwitz, R., Lahl, U., Zeschmar-Lahl, B. (2025): Third-generation biodegradable plastics \u2013 A complementary strategy to tackle the marine litter problem. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy 44, 101925. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scp.2025.101925<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leibniz-zmt.de\/en\/news-at-zmt\/in-focus\/on-topic\/unoc3-creating-a-momentum-what-do-zmt-researchers-take-away-from-the-un-ocean-conference-in-nice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZMT at the UNOC3 (Third UN Ocean Conference), Nice, 9.-13.6.2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-button-wrapper\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-button.button-1 {border-radius:1px;}<\/style><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scp.2025.101925 \"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy 44, 101925 (Open Access)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bzl-gmbh.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}