We have heard it time and time again — the world is turning into one big rubbish bin and the oceans are choking on a material that has been made to last forever — plastics. But that may soon change, ...

The plastic films CuanTec makes out of shellfish shells that are left over from seafood production is naturally antimicrobial and lets people keep using plastic wrap without worrying about plastic.

Discarded crab shells and tree fibers hardly seem like the future of plastic packaging, but J. Carson Meredith, a professor of engineering at Georgia Tech, believes a new material made from those two ...

Shell Polymers and ISOFlex, part of Sigma Plastics Group, have entered a commercial collaboration to introduce ISCC PLUS–certified circular polyethylene into the realm of food-grade flexible packaging ...

STAMI Researchers have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible plastic packaging used to keep food fresh. [email protected] ...

Plastic bags are a global problem. Annually, some one trillion of them are used around the world, and fewer than 5 percent are actually recycled. This means a massive buildup of waste, litter, and ...

Shell says that it has successfully made “high-end” chemicals using a liquid feedstock made from plastic waste using a pyrolysis process that is considered a breakthrough for hard-to-recycle plastics.

Plastic wrap could be replaced by a new material made from natural fibers, the latest in many steps to help the environment. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology revealed their new ...

Researchers have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible plastic packaging used to keep food fresh. From liquid laundry detergent ...