A team of students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London has developed a method that turns lobster shells into biodegradable "plastic." Operating under the name The Shellworks ...
The vast majority of the items the researchers saw the hermit crabs using in the photographs were made of plastic Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge shells as armour for their bodies ...
Shell describes its new packaging as, "an innovative product called Ecobox, an alternative to traditional plastic packaging for motor oil." Back in 1965, a winemaker in Australia had a novel idea.
Raw scenes like this, which lay bare the toll of plastic on wildlife, have become familiar: The dead albatross, its stomach bursting with refuse. The turtle stuck in a six-pack ring, its shell ...
Beyond seaweed and coffee shell waste, another unusual option researchers are hoping may replace plastic is fungus. Mycellium, the root-like and branching structure of a fungus, is the foundation ...