In the past year, we have seen a growing interest and commitment to the environment at both the business and consumer levels. More businesses are focused on providing environmentally friendly products ...

Why fibre now: Stricter regulations, corporate sustainability targets, and advances in fibre technology are making fibre-based packaging a viable replacement for plastic. Scaling challenges: Fibre ...

Marine biodegradable straws and products, biodegradable in landfill, oxo-biodegradable are headlines in print, TV, and E-media. Journal articles report findings of macro-organisms like meal worms and ...

At the third Scientific American “Science on the Hill” event, “Solving the Plastic Waste Problem”, one of the issues discussed by experts on Capitol Hill was biodegradability. So you buy something ...

Pollution affects human health and the environment in many ways. Air, water, and land pollution continue to damage ecosystems, with conventional materials—especially plastics—being a primary ...

Could the waste from last night’s seafood dinner power tomorrow’s electric vehicles? Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Center for Materials Innovation believe so, and their work could ...

Over the past 20 years I’ve written much about the efforts of polymer scientists to create a plastic that will “disappear” in the environment. No matter how much money is spent on research, though, ...

In this article, we define biodegradability and its significance, its benefits and disadvantages, standards, challenges, and outlook on biodegradable nanomaterials ...

Using the skin of an Amazonian fish known as tambatinga as the raw material, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) and EMBRAPA Pecuária Sudeste—a decentralized unit of the Brazilian ...