Japanese researchers have developed shopping bags made from potato starch that dissolve in water and leave no microplastics ...

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The new plant-based bags vanish in water, but whether they can truly replace plastic will depend on cost and scale.

While reusing cutlery is always better than discarding it, most people aren't going to be packing a knife and fork whenever they grab some fast food. With that fact in mind, scientists have designed a ...

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

While there are many good uses for plastic, its major drawback has been the same since Day One: It can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose. Timeplast is an innovative company that has ...

German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG announced that it’s producing a printed circuit board (PCB) that dissolves in water. Sourced from UK startup Jiva Materials, the plant-based ...

Japanese scientists developed a new plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, an eco-friendly alternative to traditional plastic. A team of researchers from Japan has developed a new type of ...