Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

Use compostable food waste liners in your food caddy. Do not use biodegradable plastic bags from supermarkets as they breakdown into little bits of plastic and are not compostable. Recycling your ...

Abundant, renewable, and biodegradable like fruit peels, seaweed is able to capture and store carbon dioxide 23 times faster than trees—a stark contrast to plastic packaging that emits greenhouse ...

Three key arguments have come up time and time again during city council’s ongoing debate on whether the city should mandate the use of clear garbage bags. Privacy ...

Rich Scherr is a seasoned journalist and editor who has traveled across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and spent more than a decade reviewing hotel room.

In its "Atlas of Plastic", the Heinrich Boll Foundation estimates that most biosourced plastics are neither completely biodegradable or compostable, and "actually just sidestep the problem".

In Australia, Secos is also the number one provider of compostable bin liners and bags to ... its biodegradable products by focusing on compostable resins derived primarily from non-GMO corn starch, ...

For a consumer, this problem would be simpler to handle if it was clear that only certain black plastic products posed a risk, or that all of them did. But Turner found that products were ...

Smartpack has placed its first full container order of Biodolomer. Credit: Gaia Biomaterials/Cision. Gaia Biomaterials has entered into an agreement with flexible packaging company Smartpack to launch ...

Oceana/Joseph Pellegrino & St. Johns County Office of Public Affairs A baby whale has died after being found on a Florida beach with a "large plastic bag" in its stomach. Last month, an individual ...