New labeling will assist shoppers in buying food and drinks that aren’t packaged in plastic. Campaign group A Plastic Planet is behind what’s called the Plastic Free Trust Mark.

Domestic and industrial wastewater contains substrates and nutrients that could be used to produce biofuels and bioplastics.

One of the biggest concerns surrounding the proliferation of microplastics in the world's oceans is how they might move up the food web from smaller to larger marine life, eventually ending up in our stomachs.

Microplastic from tyres and roads which end up in the ocean make up 89% of ultra fine particles found in the air around busy motorways.

The move could be introduced by Environment Secretary Michael Gove as early as this week.

Collins Dictionary has announced its choice for 2018 Word of the Year — single-use.

Environmental activists are returning their Walkers potato chip bags through the mail as part of a campaign to push the snack giant to make its packaging plastic-free.

Are biodegradable, compostable and bio-plastics really a better environmental solution? Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy at Axion, offers his opinion.

Scoby, is a membrane made of bacteria and yeast, which is created through a fermentation process.

A team of students at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, have developed a new bioplastic packaging called Plasticor, which gives alert by changing color on spoilage of packed food.