For Earth Month, the science-loving Jacobson siblings highlighted the problem of plastic pollution and an option to make bioplastic at home. Paige and Adam Jacobson say bioplastic can biodegrade ...

According to Interesting Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation has granted a research and development group $7 ...

According to researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), bioplastics will make little difference unless synthetic plastics are used responsibly. However, novel solutions are required to ...

SEATTLE — New bioplastics that degrade in the same time frame as a banana peel have been developed at the University of Washington (UW). Researchers used heat and pressure to make bioplastics from ...

A Swedish startup has discovered a technique to transform a waste product from the forestry industry into a bioplastic that can be used to make everything from shopping bags to smartphones. The ...

A team of scientists, including Rochester biologist Anne S. Meyer, is developing bioplastics to degrade in oceans. Plastic waste poses an urgent problem for our planet's ecosystems, especially our ...

Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to create bioplastics from food waste diverted ...

“There’s a lot of greenwashing out there,” says Daphna Nissenbaum, co-founder and CEO of compostable-packaging company Tipa. While companies have touted the recyclability of their plastic products for ...

In the fight against pollution, several regions in the U.S. have banned the use of plastic straws. Alternative materials exist, but most options are either too expensive to scale up, go limp in drinks ...