A new plant coming to the Crestwood Industrial Park in Mountain Top will be the first in the United States to make plates, cups, to-go food containers, cutlery and straws from biodegradable hemp.

Switching to biodegradable plastics could slash toxic pollution by more than a third and dramatically reduce global waste by ...

As our planet grapples with the burdensome legacy of plastic, it appears we may have been looking in the wrong place for a solution. We turned to complex chemistry and elaborate technological ...

INGLEWOOD, CA – As the world continues to find ways to beat plastic pollution that is contaminating the environment, new companies such as Terramer are ramping up production of bioplastics to curb its ...

Reducing plastic production should be one of the goals of all of us who inhabit the Earth. Two brothers from Nebraska, Andrew Bader and Steve Bader, are doing their part in saving the planet from ...

The Earth is covered in plastic—and we keep making more of it. Caitlin Saks and Arlo Pérez Esquivel join chemist Malika Jeffries-EL in her Boston University lab to explore just what it takes to break ...

STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) – A University of Connecticut professor is making polymers from hemp. He says it is a better alternative to plastic. Chemistry professor Greg Sotzing has developed a way to use an ...

One would be hard-pressed to find an agricultural product more versatile or environmentally friendly than hemp. For centuries, this hearty and fibrous plant, which can grow in diverse climates and ...