They're often marketed as a more environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional plastic bags. But a new study might make you rethink reaching for those biodegradable bags. Experts from ...

Biodegradable plastics have been around since ... they hope will compost readily and biodegrade in the ocean. Corn chip bags are their first target. Polymateria, a British firm, is taking a ...

Instead, as part of the company’s commitment to sustainability, they’re sent to farms for animal feed or they’re used to create biodegradable ... chips are weighed, packaged, and the bags ...

Kevin Kumala has created a bag from cassava starch that is 100% biodegradable and even edible. To prove that the bag is totally natural he dissolved part of it in a lukewarm glass of water and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. About 20 years ago, Bangladesh became the first nation on Earth to ban single-use plastic bags. Since then, plastic pollution has gotten worse. To find a ...