Plastic packaging can have substantially smaller environmental impacts—including 70% lower greenhouse gas emissions—compared ...

Their brief? To create new forms of food packaging to replace the unsustainable designs upon which modern life seems to depend: single-use plastic beverage cups, lids, straws, and bottles.

Other ways to avoid plastic: Along with the move toward compostable paper cups, Starbucks, which is navigating a flurry of ...

The cardboard completely decomposes in three to six weeks, compared to three months for untreated cardboard and hundreds of years for cardboard lined with a kind of plastic known as PLA.

Closed Loop Partners says the findings illustrate a viable pathway to recover these materials and led to launching the ...

A research team from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Reading has created a new polymer adhesive that breaks down when treated with basic or alkaline solutions ...