Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health ...

Old trees are learning new tricks with the advent of composite materials. A "green composite" made from biodegradable polymers and the waste bark of the Yakushima Jisugi tree was developed by a ...

Biodegradable plastics don’t break down on their own. Researchers found ocean microbes play a key role, and results can vary widely.

In phase 1, specific microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, colonize the surface of the plastic material. These microorganisms can either be present naturally in the environment or added ...

Professor dr. Linda Amaral-Zettler, Research Leader at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and the Chair in Marine Microbiology at the University of Amsterdam has been awarded a ...

The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden.

Being able to engineer a high-performance absorbent pad and roll, while still reducing landfill burden and limiting the reliance on virgin materials, has always been a core value to the team at ...

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is the talk of town in Brussels these days giving rise to studies, deep debate, and controversy, especially in the bioplastics sector. In love and ...

Plastics make up approximately 5–12 % of global waste generation, constituting around 20–30 % of waste by weight. Alarmingly, about 60 % of plastics end up as plastic waste (PW) in the environment. 2 ...