Biodegradable plastic

Recent studies reveal alarming levels of microscopic plastics, in bottled water, raising significant health concerns. Researchers employing laser-powered microscopes found between 110,000 to 400,000 plastic particles per liter in popular bottled water brands. This amounts to an average of 240,000...

Microplastics are in water, soil, air, and just about everywhere around us. Now experts have also detected microplastics in human bodies, the bloodstream of most humans, heart muscles, lungs, and even in placentas and feces of babies. Eating and...

Chinese scientists announced on Wednesday that they have created a biodegradable form of plastic using salmon sperm. The team isolated two strands of DNA from the fishes' sperm and synthesized it with a chemical found in vegetable oil that was...