Every year, 400 million tons of plastic products are produced worldwide, half of which are single-use items discarded within a year. Particularly, non-biodegradable plastic waste, which takes over 500 ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. An inventor from London was today launching a bottle that biodegrades in a matter of hours ...

Polymateria, the plastic-busting startup fronted by Niall Dunne, a veteran executive at Accenture and telecomms giant BT, recently raised $19 million in a funding round backed by Planet First Partners ...