Srinivas Janaswamy, associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Dairy and Food Science, demonstrating how agricultural byproducts can be transformed into plastic-like films.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 6, 2025 / Plastic has shaped the modern world. From packaging and medical devices to industrial goods and consumer products, it's one of the most versatile ...

With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: ...

Creating a material of this nature requires remarkable scientific ingenuity because bacteria do not naturally make anything that resembles nylon Plastic surrounds us. It wraps our food, clothes our ...

The need for biodegradable packaging material has never been higher. Currently, most packaging is "single use" and is made with plastic materials, derived from nonrenewable sources like crude oil that ...

Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the solution? Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined ...

A Scottish plastics recycling startup has recently secured a round of Series A funding to scale its pilot recycling plant into a fully operational commercial facility, Packaging Gateway reported. With ...

Scientists at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed a new method to create strong, safe plastic without using any of the toxic chemicals that usually make manufacturing dangerous to ...

Six years ago, Julia Marsh gathered with friends in the kitchen of her small Brooklyn apartment. She’d ordered some flour-like powder derived from seaweed off the internet, and — after watching ...