Scientist Luiz Henrique Mattoso and students Marcos Lorevice and Caio Otoni display edible plastic made from papayas. (Photo by Flavio Ubiali / Embrapa) BRASILIA, Brazil, January 14, 2015 (ENS) – ...

Swiss researchers have created a groundbreaking biodegradable plastic-like material that is not only flexible and durable but also alive and edible. This innovation, detailed in a recent study ...

An article in the July 14 edition of the Wall Street Journal, “Research to Make Plastic Edible Wins Prize,” profiled a pair of researchers who used microbes and chemicals to break down end-of-life ...

Plastic food packaging accounts for a significant proportion of plastic waste in landfills. In the face of escalating environmental concerns, researchers are looking to bio-derived alternatives. Now, ...

Plastic waste is one of the biggest environmental issues today, but a German biotech startup, Biophelion, has developed a method that turns some of that industrial waste into repurposed or even edible ...

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A common, black yeast-like fungus may be the solution to uncontrollable plastic waste production, according to a German startup. Reading time 2 minutes Fungi might just be the most impressive form of ...