Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans. This stark statistic, reported in a recent ...

This fork made of biodegradable plastic was made in Italy from ingredients including starch and vegetable oil. Reducing costs to manufacture plastic like this will be a major factor in replacing ...

Hemp fiber is stable, elastic, lightweight, and biodegradable, making it an excellent replacement for plastic. Batteries add hundreds of pounds to electric vehicles, reducing efficiency ...

Thankfully, researchers have developed a microplastic-free biodegradable plastic that is not only durable but is also fully recyclable. This innovative material, alkyl SP2, is the result of clever ...

One way to reduce the impact of plastic waste on the environment is to develop better ways to break it down. One such biodegradable plastic idea comes from a team of researchers at the Shenzhen ...

While you might think the dizzying array of products could be a simple solution to the growing plastic pollution ... s real confusion over what is really biodegradable, what is really compostable ...

In variable conditions, he added the worst-case scenario would be the biodegradable film would degrade within 10 years. Packaging is the largest generator of single-use plastic waste across the ...

this plastic is derived from engineered E. coli bacteria and a fiber matrix, creating a film-like material that biodegrades faster than other biodegradable plastics. The study was recently published ...

To combat this, the company devised an innovative solution that is applied to plastic materials and magically turns them into biodegradable entities. The straws, tableware and utensils being ...