On November 7, Sebastian Spierling successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Environmental assessment of bioplastics in a circular economy” and thus completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Braunschweig under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann, first examiner (TU Braunschweig) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Josef Endres, second examiner (Leibniz University Hannover) and the chairman Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Vietor (TU Braunschweig).