Who we are The Compostable Brand Certified products The rules Regulations News The Costs of Certification The Benefits of Certification How to Apply for Certification The Partners of the CIC Documents / Library Archive Contacts: Tel. 064875508 Fax 064875513 e-mail cic@compost.it "COMPOSTABILE CIC" BRAND Why was the "Compostable" brand of the Italian Composting Consortium born? Plastics are the basis of a great variety of consumer items: shopping bags, packaging, disposable tableware, mulch sheets in agriculture, etc. The great commercial success of plastics, recorded in the second half of the last century, is due to some winning characteristics. Plastics are cheap, light, have good physical-mechanical properties, resist degradation. The counterpart of this exponential development was a concomitant increase in waste. Resistance to biodegradation, a favorable feature during use, turns into potential damage when the product becomes waste. Read everything... BBC: Plastic bag charge to be introduced in England A 5p charge for plastic bags in England is to be introduced by the government in a bid to discourage their use. Potocnik, EU Commissioner for the Environment, replies to the letter from Assobioplastics, Green Chemistry, the Italian Composting Consortium and Legambiente. PRESS RELEASE Download the press release Assobioplastica: Tenders for the purchase of compostable bags for the collection of organic fractions Daily Mail: Plastic bags hypocrisy: How can our ministers use EU law to block a ban in Italy ... after backing efforts to reduce bags here? UK ministers used EU law to overturn Italian's ban on thin plastic bags - Intervention stops measure from being adopted elsewhere in Europe - David Cameron backed Daily Mail's Banish the Bags campaign in 2008 - MP Zac Goldsmith condemned failure to tackle 'plastic poison' bags - Government claims it is trying to protect interests of UK manufacturers - England uses 6.77billion of the 8billion plastic bags issued in UK Eco from the cities: Sacchetti, England (again) against the ban: something personal? Interview with David Newman, Assobioplastici Daily Mail: Italy is furious with Britain after UK blocks its bid to ban plastic shopping bags across Europe Britain blocked a ban on plastic bags in the EU earlier this month. Wales and Northern Ireland have imposed charges to reduce plastic bags. Italy wants an EU law to ban them so it can impose fines for violations. The Telegraph: Italy furious as British block ban on plastic bags The Italian government has criticised Britain for blocking in Brussels a law banning supermarket plastic bags. PROTOCOLLO DI INTESA ANCI, CIC, AssoBioPlastiche Scarica il documento L'accordo ANCI-CIC-ASSOBIOPLASTICHE Il grande patto sui rifiuti di casa così l'Italia a una sola velocità La Repubblica - Affari e Finanza 4.2.2013 Scarica l'articolo I segreti delle buste biodegradabili TG1 report of 29 April 2012, edition at 20.00 (min. 21:37) The President of Assobioplastica, Marco Versari, talks about the compostable brand CIC Assobioplastici information campaign