Tighter regulations across regions are pushing companies to move away from traditional single-use plastics, creating strong demand for PHA as a compliant alternative. Its ability to meet ...

CJ CheilJedang, the main food and biotechnology arm of CJ Group, has successfully produced garbage bags made from PHA, a ...

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 ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 30% to 40% of the nation's food supply ends up being wasted. That adds up to billions of pounds every year rotting in landfills and emitting greenhouse ...

For the first time, there is a realistic path forward for the widespread production and use of bio-based and biodegradable packaging and products, a revolution that would reduce plastic waste, help ...

The European project PROMICON issues five policy recommendations to support a new method for the production of sustainable bioplastics from microorganisms Petrol-based plastics are present in many ...

It’s hard to imagine a time before traditional plastics became commonplace for many single-use food packaging and food-contact applications. It’s even harder to imagine a time without them using ...

Rows of biodegradable mulch. Credit: Remsberg Inc. Do you want to hear about a strange journey of a single plastic film, as I have witnessed it, first as a child in rural Nepal, and now as a vegetable ...

Alternative plastics are a start, but alone they will not be enough to solve the problem of plastic pollution. Credit - Jonas Gratzer—LightRocket/Getty Images This story was produced in partnership ...

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.