At the third Scientific American “Science on the Hill” event, “Solving the Plastic Waste Problem”, one of the issues discussed by experts on Capitol Hill was biodegradability. So you buy something ...

Over the course of the past decade, and the past year in particular, the consumer products industry has seen an uptick in class action lawsuits challenging environmental marketing claims, including ...

Napa County and nearly two dozen others have reached a settlement with Amazon.com, Inc. over a consumer protection issue, District Attorney Allison Haley announced Wednesday. Haley announced that her ...

Biodegradable polymers are a type of polymer that exists both naturally and can be synthesized in laboratories. This special class of polymer is broken down naturally by microbial processes to produce ...