Regulatory questions cloud the segment’s future, as do concerns about feedstocks, material capabilities and compostability ...

There are numerous options in food packaging materials, and many major food packagers and retailers often make a choice based on non-scientific information. Clearly Clean Products LLC (Orwigsburg, PA) ...

Heidi Kratsch, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension horticulture specialist, and her team are conducting research on possible new soy- and corn-based alternatives for bioplastic, compostable ...

Do our “compostable” bags, utensils and containers really return to nature? Hailed as a solution to the plastic problem, a growing number of new materials — marketed as biodegradable, sustainable, ...

Dusseldorf — "At Interpack this year, one of the statements heard again and again was 'we are already working with bioplastics,'"said Hasso von Pogrell, managing director of European Bioplastics. "It ...

QUEBEC CITY — The Government of Canada announced a $1-million investment to BOSK Bioproducts Inc. as part of the second phase of the Bioplastics Challenge. This challenge is aimed at helping small ...

If you order takeout in Los Angeles and your meal comes with a compostable fork made from PLA—a common bio-based plastic—you’re not supposed to toss the utensil in your curbside compost bin. The city ...

On January 1, Berkeley, California rang in the New Year by putting a new rule in place requiring all cafés and restaurants to start charging 25 cents for disposable cups. The cups, in addition to lids ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the global bioplastic packaging market since 2014 and the market is poised to grow by USD 5.01 billion during 2019-2023, progressing at a CAGR of ...

If only I had a nickel for every time I saw someone post on Instagram or say in a coffee shop, “Don’t worry, it’s a compostable cup!” I’d be about as overflowing as our landfills. These compostable ...

Think you or your company knows how to recycle? Think again. Sure, managing paper and glass and aluminum are pretty easy. But a new school of plastics, called bioplastics, has made recycling -- ...