Bioplastics account for less than 1% of agricultural land

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BIOPLASTICS The European Bioplastics association says bioplastics accounted for only 0.006% of the world's agricultural land in 2011 so are "nowhere near" in competition with food and feed supplies. The association compiled data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Institute for Bioplastics and Biocompos-ites in Germany, which suggests that the surface required to grow feedstock for today's bio-plastic production is less than 1% of the global agricultural area of five billion hectares.