Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Swedish entrepreneur is trying to market a biodegradable plastic bag as a single-use toilet in the developing world’s urban slums. Once used, the bag can ...

An innovative product with the potential to replace polymers used in soil fertilizers is being developed in São Carlos in the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In college, I drove a little electric truck around campus and picked ...

Leah Oyake-Ombis in the Managing Director of the Africa Livelihood Innovations for Sustainable Environment Consulting Group There’s been a great deal of contention and debate in Kenya over what should ...

Using plastic bags is an ecological disaster; it takes about 1,000 years for one to degrade in a landfill (and even then, it leaves behind microplastics that can add toxins to soil or water).

The average person uses a typical plastic bag for as short a time as 12 minutes before throwing it away, never thinking of where it may end up. Biodegradable plastic bags are marketed as more ...

It’s no secret that the world has a plastic bag pollution problem. In the United States alone, 100 billion are used each year—the European Union goes through another 100 billion bags—and these ...