Personal care formulators use polymers primarily as film formers, as fixatives in hair care products, and as rheology ...

For more than two years, the UN member states have been trying to agree on a plastics treaty that includes globally binding ...

Research in the areas of plastics, polymers, and biodegradable materials ranges from additive manufacturing to food packaging. This work focuses on the development and characterization of sustainable ...

And, considering the bonds were formed via enzyme, the resulting polymer will almost certainly be biodegradable. There are, however, some negatives. The process doesn't allow complete control over ...

Meanwhile, the microbial production of polymers has the potential to develop biodegradable alternatives in a more sustainable way. It is well known that organisms can naturally synthesize polymers ...

Biodegradable polymer, such as crop-based hydrodegradable, compostable plastics and others, have been developed. Industries are quickly adopting these new biodegradable materials and their use is ...

Traditional polyesters are obtained via ring-opening polymerization (ROP), but significant research is currently directed at designing new biodegradable vinyl polymers with esters groups in the ...

A company in Japan called Kaneka has developed a biodegradable polymer called PHBH. Kaneka is a company headquartered in Japan. PHBH’s full name is: KANEKA Biodegradable Polymer PHBH™.

In its "Atlas of Plastic", the Heinrich Boll Foundation estimates that most biosourced plastics are neither completely biodegradable or compostable, and "actually just sidestep the problem".