Study finds over half of plastic food packaging is replaceable, urging policy and industry shifts toward sustainable grocery ...

To create new forms of food packaging to replace the unsustainable ... eliminated the outer container and plastic shrink wrap of boxed tea bags by impermanently gluing the bags into an accordion ...

(The Hill) — Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt ... These ranged from Ziploc-style bags and yogurt containers to hydration bladders and chewing gum containers.

Bunches of bananas wrapped in plastic. A pre-peeled orange in a plastic box. Shrink-wrapped cucumbers. Over-packaged food has been bothering ... from all single-use packaging - not just plastic.

Rather than a potential triumph, the compostable plastics we use look increasingly like a tragedy. Andy Extance looks at the problems and seeks solutions ...

Polythene is a ubiquitous plastic, found in everything from plastic bags to food packaging. The new textiles have potential uses in sports wear, and even high-end fashion, according to US researchers.

Rehovot-based Melodea has developed a nanocrystal-based coating that can be used to make otherwise-flimsy recyclable ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A California startup makes compostable replacements for thin-film plastic out of seaweed. The company sources raw materials from seaweed farms, which can provide ...

Out of the bags, the fruit will seem less ... albeit a few shades brighter and meshed on top to make food colour more intense ...

The Environment Agency finds paper bags need to be used at least ... to reduce avoidable unrecyclable plastic packaging while slashing the amount of food waste produced. So in the future we ...

(Photo by: Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Walk into any supermarket or retail store and the chances are you will see a variety of bags and packaging marked as compostable.

Plastic waste reduction doesn’t end in the store aisles, though; the grocer said it has also removed bottled water and disposable dishware at its corporate and divisional offices, and it has recycled ...