Silicone food storage bags keep food fresher for longer while reducing the risk of plastic contamination in the kitchen.

KETTERING, Ohio — Kettering residents looking to get rid of their food scraps in a cleaner way have a new option after the city launched a new partnership with Compost Courier, GoZERO Services. The ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

The loyal reader knows that compost is my go-to for almost everything. I use it for mulch and to put the soil food web back into soils. I am a compost nerd. The question: What to do in the winter when ...

Biotech startup FutureBio, the first tenant of UC Berkeley’s Bakar Labs for Energy and Materials, hopes to produce and recycle a new kind of durable, biorenewable plastic at a lower cost than regular ...

Dear Heloise: Hey there. I wanted to write in with two hints from a boy in Illinois. My mother lives alone, and I’ve asked her to turn on the front porch light when she goes to bed, then turn it off ...

This fall, welcome gifts for students moving into campus apartments included biodegradable compost bags. The bags are part of a new phase of UB’s organics collection program, which is designed to ...

Food waste in landfills creates methane, which is a big climate problem. Composting at home can help divert food scraps from landfills. And compost helps improve garden soil. Andy Faust and Kinorea ...

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable efficiency. Instead of ending up as microplastics in the environment, ...

In a heartbreaking and senseless act of cruelty, a tiny puppy named Journey was found stuffed inside a plastic storage tote on the side of a road in Bennettsville, South Carolina. With her body ...

Growing up in the Zimbabwean community of Riverside, on the outskirts of Harare, Mukudzei Seremani ’28 was accustomed to navigating uneven sidewalks and unpaved roads on foot. But after being struck ...