Swiss scientists have created a new plastic-like material that's flexible, biodegradable, and even edible. The secret? It's still alive. The material, which was created by a team from Empa in ...

Bacardi rum bottles, Skittles sweet wrappers, designer water bottles—a bevy of companies are developing biodegradable plastic packaging they say is better for the environment than traditional plastics ...

They tangle around bird beaks, choke seals and warp the shells of young turtles. Plastic six-pack rings have been found doing all sorts of awful things when they’re tossed anywhere but the trash. A ...

Billions of tons of plastic waste clutter our world. Most of it has accumulated on the ground and in the oceans or disintegrated into tiny particles known as microplastics that pollute the air and the ...

Imagine if you could buy fresh produce that didn't come swaddled in disposable plastic packaging. Instead, it came covered in a thin gauzy layer of something that could be rinsed off under the tap, ...

NEW YORK (CBS/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Cities in several parts of the nation have placed bans or restrictions on plastic utensils and straws. Now some businesses are offering a plastic alternative, ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Smart Food Packaging Market by Type (Active Packaging, Intelligent Packaging, Modified Atmosphere Packaging, Edible Packaging), Application, Functionality, Material and ...

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Synthetic petrochemical plastics can persist in the environment for hundreds of years - Copyright AFP TIMOTHY A. CLARY Synthetic petrochemical plastics can persist in ...