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Indian Startup Uses Rice Crop Waste to Make Biodegradable Foam Packaging–Instead of Burning it

A Delhi-based engineer has designed a replacement for polystyrene packaging out of "rice stubble" the dead stalks left over after the rice season in...

Scientists Have Used Mushrooms to Make Biodegradable Computer Chip Parts

The skin off the legs of a mushroom could potentially offer a sustainable alternative to insulative substrates in computing chips. As production of electronic devices...

Scientists Create Biodegradable Batteries That Can Be Buried in Soil After Use

Scientists have created biodegradable batteries that can be buried in soil after use. The paper-thin biodegradable zinc batteries could one day become an environmentally sustainable...

Company Innovates Microplastics That are Biodegradable or Don’t Break Apart At All

A UK-French startup just announced a $17 million funding round to make a variety of products that will allow large producers to cut out...

New Plant-based Biodegradable N95 Masks Close the Recycling Loop with Free Return of Used Ones

A company that GNN began supporting in 2017 when they were making fashion-forward scarves that filter the air at the level of N95 or...

Scientists Create World’s First Truly Biodegradable Single-use Plastic That ‘Eats Itself’ in Just 2 Weeks

Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S., and most ends up in landfill or...

Biodegradable Food Wrap Created From Algae and Cinnamon Compound is the Packaging Solution We Needed

Scientists from India and Russia have created edible food wrap for packaging produce, bakery, poultry, meat, and seafood. Designed to replace one of the most...

Biodegradable Algae Solar Panels Clean The Air While Growing Green Energy

What can generate clean energy, biomass for fertilizers, convert CO2 into oxygen, and be used in space? Algae. Pursuing this incredible organism's potential is young...

Island Province in China Bans All Disposable Plastics – And Rallies to Ramp Up Biodegradable Substitutes

While once-pristine beaches around the tropics are becoming infamous for their plastic litter, the Chinese island province of Hainan is putting a new plan...

Researchers Make Biodegradable Tableware From Sugar and Bamboo So it Will Be As Cheap as Plastic

Scientists have designed a set of "green" tableware made from sugarcane waste and bamboo that doesn't sacrifice on convenience or functionality and could serve...

New Biodegradable Carbon-Negative Straws and Forks Are Made From Greenhouse Gases–and They Dissolve in the Sea

A California company is employing ocean microorganisms to convert methane into physical material in order to make a line of single-use straws and cutlery. Newlight...

These Scientists Are Fighting Ocean Plastic With Biodegradable Flip Flops Made From Algae

A lot of entrepreneurial energy has been thrown into using algae as a replacement for petroleum-based plastics in the creation of consumer goods, and...

Prawns into Plastic: Ingenious Australian Teen Turns Shrimp Shells into Biodegradable Plastic Wrap

After noticing prawn shells look like plastic, an Australian teen created a biodegradable plastic film from shrimp casings that can be composted in 30 days.

Researchers Recycle McDonald’s Deep Fryer Oil into Cheap, Biodegradable 3D Printing Material

Rather than allowing restaurant cooking oil to clog up sewage lines, scientists have found that the oil is an ideal candidate for 3D-printing resins.

Jose Cuervo Turns Their Agave Tequila Waste into Durable, Biodegradable Straws

The “Agave Project” straws are being hailed as a first-of-its-kind model for recycling distillation waste into utensils that are similar to plastic.

Mexican Scientist Makes Edible, Biodegradable New Form of Plastic Out of Cactus Leaves

Professor Sandra Pascoe Ortiz, the scientist who developed the material, says that her new formula could be a sustainable replacement for plastic.

No More ‘Sniff Tests’: Cheap Biodegradable Sensors Can Tell Smartphones When Food Has Gone Bad

Costing just 2 cents a pop, these inexpensive sensors could save tons of perfectly good food from being thrown into the garbage.

Nestlé Launches New ‘World-First’ Biodegradable Paper Wrappers for Mass Production

Furthermore, the company will abstain from patenting the technology as a means of encouraging other companies to adopt the packaging as well.

First Marathon to Swap Plastic Bottles for Biodegradable Pouches Made Out of Plants

Rather than handing out water bottles, a UK marathon handed out these cheap little pouches that are biodegradable and totally edible.

These New Biodegradable Mardi Gras Beads Could Save Thousands of Tons of Trash From Landfills

Mardi Gras may be fun, but it generates thousands of tons of trash every year. Thankfully, these biodegradable beads might make the party a little greener.