According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 30% to 40% of the nation's food supply ends up being wasted. That adds up to billions of pounds every year rotting in landfills and emitting greenhouse ...

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

The global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical juncture, where reducing usage alone is insufficient to address the mounting environmental challenges. While biodegradable plastics have long ...

The project used an innovative cascade process by applying and combining chemical and biological methods to turn fossil-based plastic waste into natural, biodegradable substitutes to be used in the ...

This diagram illustrates the circular economy potential of biodegradable plastics. It highlights a high-value loop where waste collection and chemical treatment allow for the re-synthesis of new ...

CARBONDALE — It might surprise you to learn that the No. 1 type of landfill waste in the United State is food. That being the case, a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is looking ...

UC Berkeley has received $10 million from the Bezos Earth Fund to develop biodegradable fibers that match the strength and flexibility of natural materials. The project seeks to combat the global ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Biodegradable nitrile gloves matched or outperformed standard nitrile gloves in a range of durability tests.

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.