Every year, the global fishing industry produces around 50 million tonnes of fish waste in the form of offcuts, with the fish processing industry in the UK accounting for 172,207 tonnes annually. Now, ...

She's 23, a product design student at England's University of Sussex, spends a lot of time handling fish guts, and just won the James Dyson Award for design. What did she make from these leftovers ...

This new packaging prototype looks like conventional plastic, but it’s actually made from fish waste and algae—and unlike plastic, if it escapes into the ocean, a fish could likely eat it safely. The ...

Lucy Hughes has been named the international winner of the James Dyson Award for her MarinaTex bioplastic material. MarinaTex looks and feels like clear plastic but is made from fish waste and agar, ...

Single-use plastics are a growing problem for our planet, but they have also become a mainstay for people around the world. How can we replace the plastic bags, wrappers and more that plague us? One ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

BRIGHTON, England, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A 23-year-old Briton has cooked up a compostable compound she hopes will one day replace much single-use plastic - and its main ingredient is byproducts of the ...

An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. Hughes ...

Plastic-free alternatives to some common products. Metal straws, canvas shopping bags, glass cups and metal water bottles are all products that aim to reduce the use of single-use plastics that are ...