When used to stir a beverage in a cup, a paper straw is frequently bent slightly or delaminated. Due to its high mechanical rigidity in water, eco-friendly paper straw was observed to withstand a ...

On the basis of material, the biodegradable paper & plastic packaging market is segmented into plastic and paper. In 2021, plastic segments are dominating due to increase in demand in food and ...

A research team at the College of Natural Resources and Environment in Virginia Tech University, USA claim to have proved ...

Global vegetable production currently depends on plastics: approximately 15 million hectares of agricultural land are covered under black horticultural plastics. While alternatives to the plastic ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A British designer is offering a grown-up step up from wine boxes. Created by Martin Myerscough of Greenbottle, the paper wine bottle is biodegradable and compostable. Myerscough is also the designer ...

Although there are now biodegradable single-use electronic devices such as environmental sensors, the batteries in those devices can still pose an ecological problem. That's why scientists have now ...

Called the Cocoon, this simple invention protects seedlings from harsh arid climates and reduces the amount of water they need to thrive–and boosts their survival rate by as much as 80%. The results ...

Researchers create biodegradable MXene-bamboo paper electrodes with flexibility, stability, and conductivity for wearable sensing and sustainable assistive tech. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team, jointly led by Professors Jiyun Kim, Chaenyung Cha, and Myoung Hoon Song from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled the world’s ...

The batteries of the future may be made out of paper. Researchers have created a biodegradable, paper-based battery that is more efficient than previously possible. The batteries of the future may be ...