A material is typically defined as biodegradable if it is digested “well” by the environment in which it is placed. The more ...

Disposable diapers are a $60 billion business, and are a terror on the environment. ZymoChem is using a special fermentation process to make biodegradable absorbent ...

In the lab, these microrobots combined durability and safety when tested on mice. "Existing biodegradable microrobots are ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.

Plastic pollution is a major threat to human survival, with more than six hundred thousand tons of plastics on Earth. 2 In an effort to reduce the concentration of conventional plastics, scientists ...

A team of researchers from Ecuador's University of Guayaquil has developed biodegradable paper using brewer's spent grain, an ...