Researchers combined milk protein, starch, and volcanic clay to create a biodegradable packaging film that degrades in 13 weeks.

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

By bricking your plastic, the company claims it’ll no longer jam recycling equipment the way individual plastic bags often do ...

Since plastic packaging accounts for a large fraction of plastic waste, the demand for environmentally friendly packaging options is increasing. One material that is becoming more and more popular as ...

How do you keep a copper catalyst from losing its oomph? Just add a dusting of platinum, says a new study published in Nature Materials. A team of researchers, including scientists at the Department ...

Discover Conair's AI-driven Conveying with Optimizer™ system that automatically optimizes vacuum conveying for plastics, eliminating manual adjustments, preventing clogs, and boosting ...

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are a class of biodegradable plastic materials that can be produced via a range of biological ...

A new solar-driven method transforms plastic waste and microplastics into acetic acid, turning pollution into a valuable chemical.

While some companies opt to keep their supplier contracts short or on a handshake basis, there is a desire to negotiate agreements that benefit both parties.

Russia has developed an economical 3D printing technology for parts for aviation and space. It allows you to do without the use of expensive high-temperature equipment. The process is based on a ...

In their paper published in Nature, researchers from the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS), the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Helmholtz Centre for ...