USC biomedical engineers have developed a novel, ocean-safe biocompatible material that eliminates the risk of microplastic pollution. Plastic pollution continues to pose a major threat to marine ...

Plastics are one of the largest sources of pollution on Earth, lasting for years on land or in water. But a new type of ...

Q: Can that plastic spoon really return to nature? On the face of it, biodegradable plastic is a miracle. It looks like plastic and works much like plastic.

A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike ...

Danimer Scientific, the firm responsible for those applications, puts the addressable PHA market at 230 million metric tons (t) per year—more than half the world’s plastic demand.

About 474 million tons of plastics are produced globally each year, and about a third of it is used for packaging, including single-use plastic products for food and beverage containers. Of this ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 30% to 40% of the nation's food supply ends up being wasted. That adds up to ...

But both recycling and biopolymers face obstacles. Despite years of effort, the plastics recycling rate in the US, for instance, is still less than 10%.

Citation: Islam, M. R., Ruponti, S. A., Rakib, M. A., Nguyen, H. Q., & Mourshed, M. (2022). Current scenario and challenges of plastic pollution in Bangladesh: A focus on farmlands and terrestrial ...

Biodegradable vs. degradable. Degradable plastic bags have a lot of chemicals and heavy metals in them. This can cause problems when the plastic starts to break down because the chemical and ...