You probably think about what and how much you throw away – but do you ever stop to think about what you throw it into? If ...

Research in the areas of plastics, polymers, and biodegradable materials ranges from additive manufacturing to food packaging. This work focuses on the development and characterization of sustainable ...

A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano ...

Luckily, there are many efforts being put towards creating more sustainable products and materials which take a fraction of the time to break down. Here are five amazing biodegradable inventions ...

(ASTM D6954 is the standard for oxo-biodegradable materials.) ASTM D6400-compliant ... Out of all of the different types of poop bags on this list, contenders for this category were probably ...

Traditional polyesters are obtained via ring-opening polymerization (ROP), but significant research is currently directed at designing new biodegradable vinyl polymers ... roadblocks preventing these ...

Research and development of plant-derived "biodegradable plastics" is underway ... Polylactic acid, the most basic bioplastic material, however, cannot breakdown without meeting certain conditions ...