Park your butt on a cushion made from cigarette butts
In India, students from Delhi University’s Sri Venkateswara College are making cushions out of discarded cigarette butts.
Dubbed CiggB, the project began in 2016 and...
Natalie Portman rocks fennel-based kicks on SNL
In New York, vegan shoemaker Sydney Brown will launch a pair of biodegradable high heels later this summer, just months after A-lister Natalie Portman...
LEGO moves beyond bioplastic bricks to sustainable packaging
In Denmark, LEGO is going beyond bioplastic bricks in a move to become more environmentally friendly and is revamping its packaging as well. LEGO...
BioBean turns spent coffee grounds to biofuel
In the United Kingdom, BioBean is working with waste management companies to collect used coffee grounds from over 1,500 small coffee shops and others...
SweeGen and Ingredion bring non-GMO sweetener to Colombia
In California, SweeGen, a nature-based sweetener company, and Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global provider of ingredient solutions to diversified industries, announced that the...
Braskem develops biobased polyethylene packaging for Scotts Canada
In Pennsylvania, Braskem and Scotts Canada announced the launch of the new Scotts Turf Builder with Root-TrientsT product packaging that utilizes Braskem’s I'm greenT...
Philippines eyes food packaging based on rice straw
In the Philippines, researchers are working to turn waste rice straws into packaging materials for rice and other foods.
After the rice harvest, the large...
Sticks and stones: UK testing renewable alternative to casts
In the United Kingdom, a trial is using wood-based casts as an ecofriendly and efficient replacement for the standard fiberglass cast in setting broken...
Kraig Biocraft develops spider silk proteins breakthrough
In Michigan, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., and its R&D team have achieved a major breakthrough in the construction of DNA encoding for spider silk...
Arctic Biomaterials wins 2018 Innovation Award
In Germany, the Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2018” goes to Arctic Biomaterials from Finland for degradable glass fibre reinforced PLA. The...