The good news: Compostable packaging does actually turn to compost just like your food scraps do, which is way gentler on the ...

The eco-adjectives are everywhere, on everything: Earth-friendly, all natural, enviro-safe. "Biodegradable" was supposed to be different. So clinical. So reassuring. Bio means life. Degrade means to ...

We often think of plastic pollution as a problem of oceans and seabirds. But beneath our feet, in the quiet dark of agricultural soils, a new kind of contamination is unfolding—one with profound ...

It seems that many believe if the word "biodegradable" appears on a plastic bottle or package of any kind, it provides automatic permission for people to become litterbugs. In 2010 at the Society of ...

It's one thing to make bio-based plastics, that is, plastics made from biological materials. It's quite another to make new bioplastics that are also biodegradable -- especially those that biodegrade ...