Beyond straw bans, there's mounting pressure on companies to not use plastic packaging. That's creating a budding market for alternative products.

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Weiler is also working on bait bags for the lobster and crab industries and is interested in kelp-based cling wrap to replace the plastic used to wrap boats in the winter. For now, her startup is ...

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

Researchers from Gifu University in Japan might have developed a worthy metal gear replacement from two unlikely materials: plastic and carbon fiber. Metal has long been used in cars because of ...

It's usually safe to assume that steel is stronger and more wear resistant than plastic. But plastic gears have been shown to outperform metal ones in high-speed feeders that insert postcards ...