The global Plant-Based Cutlery Market is experiencing significant momentum as governments, foodservice operators, retailers, ...

Biodegradable plastics have been hailed as an eco-friendly alternative to solve the global plastic pollution crisis. These are made from renewable resources like corn starch and sugar cane as compared ...

Consulting firm’s report lists lack of recycling infrastructure as one problematic aspect of polylactic acid bioresin. While products made from bioresins may carry recyclability or compostability ...

(a) Schematic illustration of the natural biodegradation, (b) chemical recycling, and (c) mechanical energy-driven bioreforming of PLA hydrolysates to CH 4. Researchers have developed a mechanical ...

LG Chem Ltd. and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) have canceled plans to build lactic acid and polylactic acid (PLA) plants in Illinois. The collaboration between the South Korean chemical company and ADM ...

Rare is the market that can’t benefit from a sustainable packaging improvement and that includes unexpected applications in healthcare. Exemplary of that effort is Innovative Bottles, which has ...

The patent approval comes at a time of significant change for the plastics and packaging industry across the GCC ...

A group of 30 French and European experts worked on the collective scientific assessment[1], drawing on a corpus of over 4,500 international scientific publications as well as statistics and ...

In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...

An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a ...