Greg Pryor of the composting company Recology holds a handful of processed compost at the integrated waste management's compost site in the San Joaquin Valley town of Vernalis in June. He tries to get ...

“There’s a lot of greenwashing out there,” says Daphna Nissenbaum, co-founder and CEO of compostable-packaging company Tipa. While companies have touted the recyclability of their plastic products for ...

Do our “compostable” bags, utensils and containers really return to nature? Hailed as a solution to the plastic problem, a growing number of new materials — marketed as biodegradable, sustainable, ...

If you order takeout in Los Angeles and your meal comes with a compostable fork made from PLA—a common bio-based plastic—you’re not supposed to toss the utensil in your curbside compost bin. The city ...

KANSAS CITY — A good percentage of consumers say they want sustainable packaging, and food companies include packaging in their sustainability goals. Options appear in post-consumer recycled (PCR) ...

Dusseldorf — "At Interpack this year, one of the statements heard again and again was 'we are already working with bioplastics,'"said Hasso von Pogrell, managing director of European Bioplastics. "It ...

In the eagerness to prove the sustainability of plastics, an idea blossomed that somehow someone could turn plastic into soil, mimicking the life cycle of a leaf or grass. Thus began the quest for the ...

If only I had a nickel for every time I saw someone post on Instagram or say in a coffee shop, “Don’t worry, it’s a compostable cup!” I’d be about as overflowing as our landfills. These compostable ...

The Bioplastics Division of the Plastics Industry Association (Plastics), Washington, has named Bainbridge, Georgia-based Danimer Scientific and Purchase, New York-based PepsiCo the joint winners of ...

As reported by Towards Packaging experts, the global plant-based food bioplastics market is anticipated to rise from USD 1.22 billion in 2026 to approximately USD 1.90 billion by 2034, with a CAGR of ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the global bioplastic packaging market since 2014 and the market is poised to grow by USD 5.01 billion during 2019-2023, progressing at a CAGR of ...