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Natural materials including farm waste can make autos and other industries more sustainable, less toxic.

Korea-Spain joint research team develops an itaconic acid mass production method using inexpensive raw materials such as byproducts from gas fermentation from steel mills...

This study supports the implementation of both the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Waste Framework Directive by identifying a list of priority waste or by-product streams (scoping) and deriving the most...

Microplastic pollution represents a global problem with negative impacts on aquatic environment and organisms’ health. To date, most of the laboratory toxicological studies on microplastics (MPs) have made...

Compostable plastics can deliver the optimal contribution to a circular economy in Europe, they are not a general solution but a specific technology for selected products

Award-winning material looks and feels like plastic but is stronger and can be disposed of as food waste

Efforts should increase for finding and implementing techniques for addressing pollution (e.g. Some 80 million tonnes of polyethylene are produced globally, per year. The wax moth...