Wrapping food in plastic does serve a purpose. A plastic-wrapped cucumber at a supermarket may seem egregious, but the vegetable lasts longer and is less likely to end up as food waste; throwing out ...

Great Wrap aims to be a plug-and-play replacement for film wraps for both home and business. It replaces petroleum-based films with a bio-based waste product that, unlike most other bio-based polymers ...

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Made by Shields, a Novolex brand, the innovative new wrap offers a sustainable solution that meets the needs of both dairies and consumers Manufactured by Novolex company Shields ®, the new ...

Cellulose and chitin are the world's first- and second-most common biopolymers, found in plants and crustacean shells (among other places) respectively. Georgia Tech scientists have now devised a ...

The supposedly compostable plastic items included things like disposable cutlery, cups, bags and newspaper wraps. When the submitted data was analyzed, it was found that approximately 60% of items ...

August 19 - We’ve all been there: standing by a bin, squinting at a piece of packaging, trying to figure out its fate. Is it recyclable? Does it go straight into the rubbish bin? Increasingly, there’s ...

There are numerous options in food packaging materials, and many major food packagers and retailers often make a choice based on non-scientific information. Clearly Clean Products LLC (Orwigsburg, PA) ...

• Most English cucumbers come wrapped in single-use plastic to keep moisture in, air out, and to help prevent bruises and scrapes. • If you buy unwrapped cucumbers, you can wrap them in plastic wrap ...