Laura DiMugno is a journalist who writes about energy, the environment, travel, and technology. She is the founder of Keep It Green, a blog devoted to conservation, sustainability, and culture.

To date, several different microorganisms have been found to participate in the biodegradation of various synthetic plastic materials following their isolation from the soil of plastic-dumping sites, ...

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 ...

Uluu, an Australian company that has developed a biodegradable seaweed-based alternative to plastic, has raised AU$16 million ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

Microorganisms, such as fungi, bacteria, or algae, can degrade biodegradable plastics. These plastics offer greater ...

The manufacturer of BioWrap, a pale green, single-use shrink wrap, claims the material breaks down in less than 5 years.

An Arkansas-based startup is hoping to turn a technology that originated at the University of Minnesota into a widely accepted alternative to plastic bags. The bags, under development by Fayetteville, ...

The enzyme-enhanced plastic film had the same strength and flexibility as a standard plastic grocery bag. UC Berkeley photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering Some single-use plastics have been replaced ...

A lot has changed in the sixty years since those cinematic words were expressed in Goodbye Columbus. The financial efficacy of a cheap material has given way to environmental concerns, after all, much ...