The Verge: Energy
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Location: “Hevea trees are primarily grown in Southeast Asia,” he says, “while guayule is grown in the Southwestern US.” Bridgestone’s Bill Niaura, executive director of sustainable innovation and circular economy, says guayule is a drop-in replacement with many potential advantages. Chief among them? This is also a climate resiliency play.
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 3, 2019
The brand's natural, non-toxic, hypoallergenic and biodegradable-certified products have been extensively tested to clean comparable to chemical/synthetic products. Pipper Standard's products are also ECO certified, meaning they biodegrade by themselves more than 90% within one month.
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Planet Pulse
JUNE 25, 2023
The Crayons of the Seas project by SKY Perfect JSAT , one of Asia’s largest satellite communication companies based in Japan. Crayons of the Seas is a science-meets-art collaboration that created one-of-a-kind hues of biodegradable crayons representing twelve colors of the ocean based on Planet’s satellite imagery of our watery highways.
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 26, 2019
Banana leaves as packaging If you’ve ever had the good fortune to visit a southern Indian restaurant in Asia, you may have been served dinner on a banana leaf instead of a plate. Seoul residents are now required to discard their food waste in special biodegradable bags, which cost families an average of six dollars per month.
Sustainability Consulting
MARCH 11, 2021
The platforms will be kept afloat by buoys designed to biodegrade once they reach the deep ocean, at which point the kelp will fall to the ocean floor, taking its carbon with it. It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa.
Grist
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Meanwhile, innovators of all ages are developing plastic alternatives made from things like fish skin, vegetable starches and other biodegradable substances that offer the promise of rapid decomposition when disposed of properly, a sharp contrast with the thousands of years that traditional plastics may linger in the environment.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2022
Applicants applied for funding ranging from £50,000 up to £250,000 that demonstrated solutions to specific challenges identified by each Plastics Pact, and which will ultimately help reduce plastic pollution in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The film is compostable and biodegradable on land and sea without human intervention.
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