If you order takeout in Los Angeles and your meal comes with a compostable fork made from PLA—a common bio-based plastic—you’re not supposed to toss the utensil in your curbside compost bin. The city ...

Emerging research shows that plant-based plastics — just like petroleum-based plastics — contain many thousands of synthetic chemicals, with large numbers of them extremely toxic. However, the ...

Several months have now passed since the Biden-Harris Administration and the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued an array of goals and priorities aimed at positioning the U.S. as a leader ...

Is it possible to recover plastic recyclates from previously unused waste streams in order to produce high-quality fibers and ...

Right now, plastics are wreaking havoc on the environment. While plastics have been very useful, they are also quite tough, and instead of breaking down naturally in the environment, they break up ...

Bio-based plastics often end up in recycling streams because they look and feel like conventional plastic, but the contamination of these compostable products makes it much harder to generate ...

When the San Francisco sea lion named Blonde Bomber made one of his regular appearances at the city's Pier 39, residents were alarmed at the plastic strap wrapped around his neck. Alarmed, but also ...

The Brazilian bio-based ethylene facility is now operating at a capacity of 260 thousand tons per year. The celebrated expansion of the world’s first, industrial scale, bio-polyethylene comes thirteen ...

Some Honda models are swapping plastics for bio-based materials, hinting that the next shift in motorcycles might be one we ...

While the continued growth of the plastics sector is a major sustainability risk for companies amid society’s calls to phase out fossil fuels, replacing them with bioplastics is not the answer (“Plant ...

Mushrooms can be tasty to eat, a trip to consume and also make for a twist on the cause of a zombie invasion for a certain video game and TV series. South Korean automaker Kia thinks mushrooms also ...

In this article, we will look at the top 15 bioplastics companies in the world. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of the bioplastics market, you can go directly to the Top 5 Bioplastics ...