The plastics industry is increasingly embedding sustainability and circular economy imperatives into materials development, driven by regulation, brand demands, and end-market expectations. However, a major innovation barrier remains: the slow pace and high resource burden of standard biodegradation evaluation, which is misaligned with rapid formulation cycles in materials R&D.

Learning Objective
This session will share case studies and practical insights on deploying accelerated biodegradation screening in industrial plastics R&D, highlighting how this capability can reduce time-to-insight and foster credible, data-driven sustainability innovation across the plastics value chain.