It started as a quiet experiment shared in a small community garden outside Portland, where gardeners were constantly looking ...

Plastic that behaves like a sturdy fork on your picnic table and then quietly melts back into the soil sounds like science fiction, yet chemists are now doing something close by turning ordinary milk ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 30% to 40% of the nation's food supply ends up being wasted. That adds up to billions of pounds every year rotting in landfills and emitting greenhouse ...

Sun Ferreira, an assistant professor in the food science department for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, is a co-author of a review article published in Trends in Food ...

Billions of tons of plastic waste clutter our world. Most of it has accumulated on the ground and in the oceans or disintegrated into tiny particles known as microplastics that pollute the air and the ...

Plastic films are extensively utilized in agroecosystems, and their residues are accumulating in global soil at a worrying rate. Biodegradable films are employed as a substitute for polyethylene (PE) ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...