Why are plant-based products important?
How is the lifecycle of a plant-based product different from the lifecycle of a fossil fuel-based product? Plant-based products are made from renewable resources that can be disposed of in beneficial ways while many traditional products are made from non-renewable fossil fuels and often end up in landfills. Learn how you can add more plant-based products to your life.
As America faces a number of environmental imperatives, including a waste management crisis, growing greenhouse gas emissions, declining soil health, and diminishing water quality, increasing the adoption of renewable, plant-based products can help address these challenges.
The plant-based products industry brings quality, green jobs to small communities and contributes to quality of life improvements—both economically and environmentally. Learn more about the economic impact.
Further, the global appetite for environmentally responsible consumer goods is increasing. Expanding the plant-based products industry can help meet that demand while driving a circular economy that encourages the use of renewable resources and keeps those resources in use longer. Plant-based products offer more sustainable alternatives to traditional products and materials derived from fossil-fuels.
Plant Based Product Examples
We have an extensive list of Product Examples or you can find specific products in USDA’s BioPreferred Catalog.
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PBPC’s 2023 Annual Report highlights our advocacy, policy, and communications accomplishments of 2023. Learn about our commitment to working with our partners, members, and stakeholders to advance the plant-based products industry.
Leading the Way for Plant Based Products
The Plant Based Products Council is the premier advocacy organization focused solely on working with policymakers and other stakeholders to advance both education and policy that helps position the plant-based products industry as leaders in innovation, addressing critical environmental imperatives and providing jobs and economic opportunity to communities across the U.S. Learn how we are taking action on PBPC’s priority policy and communications objectives.
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PBPC represents business large and small that are working to guide the global economy toward more sustainable and responsible consumer products and packaging through greater use of plant-based materials. We also support and advocate for programs that support the circular bioeconomy.