Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution ...

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A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry's environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed a biodegradable form of ...

Seafood is a major industry in New England. It generates a lot of revenue for coastal communities, but with that productivity can come a lot of waste. Right now, that waste—things like crab and ...

There are no great solutions to the problem of throwaway plastics. They can clog up landfills for centuries, or get dumped into rivers and break down into toxic microplastics. Incineration produces ...

Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc global specialists in technologies that make plastic and rubber products “smarter, safer and sustainable", is pleased to announce that it has received approval ...

HMRC tells Packaging Gateway that compostable plastics are not automatically exempt from the UK's Plastic Packaging Tax.

Prof. Renald Blundell's article of 26 July rightly draws attention to the growing public concern about plastic pollution and ...

Japan-based materials experts have made impressive progress in the search for a better biodegradable plastic. The breakthrough starts with an abundant material: cellulose from wood pulp. Takuzo Aida, ...

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Switching to biodegradable plastics could slash toxic pollution by more than a third and dramatically reduce global waste by mid-century but only if cities and companies invest in the right disposal ...

A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry's environmental footprint. Researchers have developed a biodegradable form of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) filled with bacterial ...