Designer Jordan Korokna uses bamboo’s natural cylinder shape to make a flashlight.

Students from the Royal College of Art have made fabrics from plants grown in seawater, providing a potential solution for the currently freshwater-intensive fashion and textile industries.

For the first time patches of floating macroplastics are detectable in optical data acquired by the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellites.

Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF developed a novel, bio-based facade insulating material during a two-year project.

Designer Pablo Dorigo uses Alga Carta, a special paper made from algae, to create stamps that tell a story.

Veronika Bátori, a researcher from Sweden, developed bioplastic materials derived from fruit waste with promising properties.

Ein zunehmendes Umweltbewusstsein seitens der Verbraucher führt zu der Erkenntnis, dass die Verpackungsindustrie langfristig nicht als lineares Modell weitergeführt werden kann.

Thai designer Natchar Sawatdichai's collection of Qualified paper blinds are designed to offer a sustainable alternative to those made from plastics.

Polylactic acids, starch blends, cellulose, and other bioplastics achieve significantly higher growth rates than conventional standard plastics made of mineral oils or natural gases.

It turns out that 75% of jars sold worldwide use the same size lid. For designer Jorre van Ast this simple fact inspired the clever Jar Tops.