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Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant. A material called pyridinedicarboxylic acid, or PDCA, could help address at ...

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

Even when biodegradable plastics are made from plants rather than fossil fuels, their environmental footprint extends far beyond the end of life. Growing corn, sugarcane, or other feedstocks at ...

Plastics are one of the largest sources of pollution on Earth, lasting for years on land or in water. But a new type of brilliantly colored cellulose-based plastic detailed in ACS Nano could change ...

Bacardi rum bottles, Skittles sweet wrappers, designer water bottles—a bevy of companies are developing biodegradable plastic packaging they say is better for the environment than traditional plastics ...

For business leaders, the most important shift is to stop asking what a material is called and start asking what happens to ...

Rows of biodegradable mulch. Credit: Remsberg Inc. Do you want to hear about a strange journey of a single plastic film, as I have witnessed it, first as a child in rural Nepal, and now as a vegetable ...

Study shows biodegradable plastics offer superior chemical recyclability and economic value for sustainable waste management ...