Guidance for bio-based products in procurement
What are bio-based products?
Bio-based products are products that are wholly or partly made from biomass.
A bio-based product is normally characterized by the bio-based carbon content or the bio-based content.
The term “bio-based product” is often used to refer to a product which is partly bio-based. In those cases the claim should be accompanied by a quantification of the bio-based content.
These definitions are obtained from the European Standard EN 16575:2014 ‘Bio-based products – Vocabulary’. This [...]