Walmart announced this morning it will be reducing plastic across its e-commerce operations in a number of ways, including shifting from plastic mailers to recyclable paper bag mailers and allowing ...

As the use of plastic increases, scientists and inventors are looking for ways to get a handle on the problem of plastic waste. Recent patent data points to promising innovations, especially from ...

Kolkata: A Kolkata youngster has devised a biodegradable material that can act as a substitute for plastic bags and received a patent for it. Aviroop Mukherjee (30) created the material after two ...