In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have ...

Composting should be one of the simplest ways to reduce waste and regenerate soil. But a visit to Sea to Sky Soils reveals a ...

Plastics are everywhere—from your phone case to the containers holding your food. They're cheap, light, and strong, which ...

The "coral defenders" are made of plastic called PHA. Similar to a potato starch, it naturally breaks down when exposed, ...

Sustainable food packaging is nothing new but high production costs and limited scalability are perennial challenges.

less than 10 per cent of the world’s 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste generated globally to date has been recycled. Plastic is not biodegradable. Instead of decomposing, it fragments into smaller ...

coli in an acid whey waste stream. The recombinant, meaning genetic material, was broken up and recombined in a new arrangement. E. coli break down lactose and lactic acid in the acid whey and convert ...

Hemp-based plastics are eco-friendly, biodegradable, and strong, presenting a viable alternative to traditional plastics in automotive and packaging sectors.

According to a 2021 report on plastics in agriculture by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ... the flow of plastic and microplastic waste into ecosystems.