Pollution affects human health and the environment in many ways. Air, water, and land pollution continue to damage ecosystems, with conventional materials—especially plastics—being a primary ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Polymateria, who in 2020 became the first company to evidence full biodegradation of plastic in the open environment, has today open-sourced data showing that its ...

Professor dr. Linda Amaral-Zettler, Research Leader at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and the Chair in Marine Microbiology at the University of Amsterdam has been awarded a ...

Plastic pollution is seemingly omnipresent in society, and while plastic bags, cups, and bottles may first come to mind, plastics are also increasingly used to make clothing, rugs, and other textiles.

Biodegradation occurs only after long-term exposure to moisture and microorganisms, so fabrics maintain durability and ...

Michael Pratt doesn't want to change the way you take out the trash. Instead, he wants to change what happens to trash when it ends up in a landfill or the middle of the ocean. Pratt is the founder of ...

The CSIC's associated unit in Polymer Technology in Castellón will study the biodegradation levels of the materials developed. The CSIC's associated unit in Polymer Technology at the Universitat Jaume ...

Biotechnology encompasses a variety of techniques that employ living cells and molecules, such as enzymes, derived from organisms to produce or alter products and processes. In the plastics sector, ...

Compounding the problem of the sheer scale of discarded clothing that ends up in landfills is that much of it is made from synthetic materials — which can take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to ...

CJ CheilJedang said on the 26th that it will introduce in Korea and abroad items such as a "washable biodegradable sanitary dishcloth" and "biodegradable straws" made with the biodegradable bio ...