With roughly 440,000 tonnes of plastic leaking into South Africa’s environment every year, plant-based packaging is often ...

Office worker Ms. Jang, 30 years old, has been using straws labeled “biodegradable plastic straw” or “bioPE (polyethylene) ...

Paper straws also had 2.04 times the impact on environmental acidification, which can make soil and water more acidic and ...

A South Korean government study found plastic straws did less environmental harm than paper straws in most categories. Paper ...

Plastic water sachets are an essential way to provide people in Guinea with safe and affordable drinking water. But their use ...

A life-cycle assessment commissioned by South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment has revealed that ...

Conventional plastic straws had the smallest impact in 10 of the 16 categories, including climate change, acidification, ...

Study finds paper straws perform worse than plastic on key environmental measures in South Korea, amid debate over disposable ...

The enzyme, discovered by researchers at the University of Konstanz in Germany, breaks down certain biodegradable plastics ...

This scientific study might be the last straw. A damning study out of South Korea has revealed that paper straws might ...

Researchers built three additive-free corn stover biocomposites with tunable degradation and upcycled their hydrolysates into ...

Man enzyme” that helps bacteria devour certain types of plastic and may offer new hope in the fight against plastic pollution ...