Scientists in Switzerland will have you thinking twice before saying "hold the mushrooms" on your next food order. That's because the researchers have successfully created a fungal device that can ...

Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but today's "compostable" plastic bags, utensils and cup lids don't break down during ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - An LSU researcher is refining a process to make biodegradable beads that could keep tens of thousands of pounds of plastic beads from entering the environment each year.

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sports company PUMA has developed an experimental version of its most iconic sneaker, the SUEDE, to test for a product to make it biodegradable. By doing so, ...

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

After being used for military purposes during the Civil War, coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories in the 1880s. As a fossil fuel, coal played an important role in the ...

Glass is an essential part of everyday life, from drinking glasses to mirrors and eyeglasses. However, the widespread use of non-biodegradable glass has led to environmental hazards. To tackle this ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.