Biodegradable plastics: Plant symbol chosen as icon. By Tiffany Hsu. April 21, 2011 9:31 PM PT . ... The bioplastics industry may have a new symbol to slap on its products and packaging ...

Researchers have turned food waste into biodegradable plastic, offering a promising new path to fight both food and plastic ...

On the face of it, biodegradable plastic is a miracle. It looks like plastic and works much like plastic. ... Making plastic from food waste would also generate fewer planet-warming emissions.

Earth Biodegradable plastic: Waste that eats itself. Plastics that degrade on disposal already exist, and are getting better. But they won't solve the plastic trash problem on their own – and ...

Scientists in New York have developed a low-cost, scalable method to transform food waste into eco-friendly bioplastics using ...