Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...

However, there are some items that you should think twice about - including tea bags. While we know that coffee grounds are ...

The compost heap? Other recycling? Landfill, up until recently, would have been the correct answer because teabags have traditionally been sealed with a very small amount of plastic - made from oil.

The researchers at Boston's Northeastern University see the new plastic as useful for detergent pods, among other ...

Rather than a potential triumph, the compostable plastics we use look increasingly like a tragedy. Andy Extance looks at the ...

At a time when synthetic plastic has polluted nearly every corner of the globe and appeared in food and in the human body, ...

The spores remain dormant during the useful lifetime of the plastic, but spring back to life and start to digest the product when exposed to nutrients in compost. There's hope "we can mitigate ...

Making compost is a sustainable way to help your garden, so if we can do it in a way where we're reusing plastic bottles, ...

As the packaging industry faces growing pressure to adopt sustainable practices, plastic wrap – once a go-to solution – is ...

Compost can be made in a number of ways, from simply piling up old plant material, to using complicated plastic bins. Basically, plant waste + moisture + warmth + air + micro-organisms + time ...

Garden waste collections were halted by some councils because of the pandemic and driver shortages Jenny Brayshaw, who works for a website manufacturing and selling plastic Dalek-style compost ...