From fiber-based cosmetic packaging to recyclable fungi, these companies hope to advance the beauty industry’s sustainability ...

The study Biodegradable Innovations: Harnessing Agriculture for Eco-Friendly Plastics, published in the Journal of ...

After being used for military purposes during the Civil War, coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories in the 1880s. As a fossil fuel, coal played an important role in the ...

Biodegradable plastics have already been created by using proteins from plants such as corn or soy. But they were not strong enough to be used by the industry. Now, researchers at Iowa State ...

Global vegetable production currently depends on plastics: approximately 15 million hectares of agricultural land are covered under black horticultural plastics. While alternatives to the plastic ...

Accessories maker, Majority is underscoring its sustainability drive with the release of the Tru Bio earbuds. The Tru Bio is a pair of biodegradable wireless earbuds that offers up to 30 hours of ...

Laura DiMugno is a journalist who writes about energy, the environment, travel, and technology. She is the founder of Keep It Green, a blog devoted to conservation, sustainability, and culture.

As the world watches the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico go from bad to worse, people are asking whether there isn’t another solution to petroleum-based oils. As the world watches the BP oil spill ...

CJ BIO will develop solutions to replace single-use plastic amenities with products made with biodegradable PHA for Accor-affiliated hotels in Korea. The two companies will review future expansion to ...

Microplastics are small, practically indestructible fragments shed by ordinary plastic items. The news becomes worse as more information regarding microplastics becomes available. Microplastics are ...

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