Microplastics have emerged as a major environmental concern, prompting growing public awareness and increasing regulatory pressure. In response, industries are turning to biodegradable polymer ...

In an inter-institute collaboration RASEI Fellow Merritt Turetsky teams up with Carson Bruns from ATLAS to explore a productive way to deal with the plastic waste problem. Awarded a CU Boulder 2025 ...

The global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical juncture, where reducing usage alone is insufficient to address the mounting environmental challenges. While biodegradable plastics have long ...

Most plastic forks, bottles, and shopping bags ever made still exist somewhere. Maybe buried in a landfill. Maybe drifting in the Pacific. Petrochemical plastics have been perhaps humanity’s greatest ...

Mexican company Biofase transforms avocado waste into biodegradable plastic that decomposes in 240 days, turning 300,000 tons ...