{"id":21611,"date":"2019-02-14T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=21611"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:00:24","slug":"compostable-radcom-wrapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2019\/02\/14\/compostable-radcom-wrapper\/","title":{"rendered":"New compostable RadCom wrapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are proud to announce that Members, both in the UK and overseas, will now be receiving their copy of <em>RadCom <\/em>in a compostable wrapper derived from potato starch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Society we are committed to reducing reliance on single-use plastic, and by introducing the new wrapper we are preventing over 250,000 plastic wrappers potentially going to landfill each year.<\/p>\n<p>The new wrapper is made from Bioplast 300\u00ae, which is made from waste potatoes left out of the food chain.<\/p>\n<p>It complies with European Standard EN13432, an EU-harmonised standard for compostable and biodegradable packaging.<\/p>\n<p>The wrapper can be disposed of in a home compost bin, food waste caddy or in green waste for collection by the local authority.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the Bioplast 300\u00ae can be found below\u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/radcom\/info\/bioplast_300_faq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bioplast 300\u00ae FAQ<\/a><\/strong> (1-page\/139KB PDF)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/radcom\/info\/film_spec_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film specification sheet<\/a><\/strong> (1-page\/37KB PDF)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/radcom\/info\/exploring_world_bioplastic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exploring the world of bioplastics<\/a><\/strong> (2-page\/938KB PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that Members, both in the UK and overseas, will now be receiving their copy of RadCom in a compostable wrapper derived from potato starch. As a Society we are committed to reducing reliance on single-use plastic, and by introducing the new wrapper we are preventing over 250,000 plastic wrappers potentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}