Plastics have revolutionized manufacturing, but they’re still terrible for the environment. Manufacturing plastics is an energy-intensive slog that ends in mountains of toxic industrial waste and ...

Food waste is a crisis we can no longer ignore. Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption ends ...

With food the top type of landfill waste in the United States, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale researcher looks for ways to divert that waste into a process for making biodegradable ...

Danimer Scientific, a leading developer and manufacturer of biodegradable materials, and Genpak, the leading manufacturer of quality food packaging, are partnering to create a new line of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The fight to protect our environment is multifaceted. Climate change, chemical pollution and overcrowding are just a few of the problems we face. Another one is how we ...

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

The water-proof food packaging is made from a type of corn protein called zein, starch and other naturally derived biopolymers, infused with a cocktail of natural antimicrobial compounds (see video).

As reported by Towards Packaging experts, the global plant-based food bioplastics market is anticipated to rise from USD 1.22 billion in 2026 to approximately USD 1.90 billion by 2034, with a CAGR of ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.

Plastic pollution and disposal of single use plastic packaging is a huge sustainability issue in need of innovative solutions: latest results from the EU-funded project YPACK show that an innovative ...