Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars ...

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The ...

Rattled by stories of farmers dumping milk during the pandemic, two UW-Platteville professors aimed to find a way to use the ...

— -- Here is one word about an up-and-coming innovation in plastics: cornfields. Bioplastics — most of which are now made from corn — are poised to grab a bigger share of the plastics market as ...

"I had never made a polymer in my life." Scientist develops game-changing new compound that solves major issue with plastics: 'People told me I was wasting my time' first appeared on The Cool Down.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

The rigid yet biodegradable plastic outperforms not only alternative biodegradable options, but plastic itself for mechanical strength.