Davao experts warn that improper food waste disposal attracts disease vectors (flies, rodents), spreading illnesses like Salmonella and Leptospirosis. Davao Thermo Biotech’s Olive Puentespina promotes ...

Like most other commonly used types of plastic, polyurethane is typically made from non-renewable crude oil, and it takes centuries to break down when discarded. Now, however, scientists have created ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. University ...

How many of your personal gadgets or home appliances have you replaced or thrown away in the last few years? While it might not get as much coverage as plastic bags, electronic waste is just as thorny ...

With food the top type of landfill waste in the United States, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale researcher looks for ways to divert that waste into a process for making biodegradable ...

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.

Can we simply magic plastics away? That’s the promise of biodegradable plastics – and they are at least part of the plastic waste solution, says Kevin O’Connor of University College Dublin, Ireland.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Biodegradable nitrile gloves matched or outperformed standard nitrile gloves in a range of durability tests.

Vegan leather shoes are typically made from plastics like polyurethane–so even though they might avoid the carbon footprint and animal welfare issues of raising cattle, they aren’t exactly ...

MADURAI: Chinnapatti panchayat in the West Union has emerged as a notable example of sustainable waste management and rural ...