Discarded plastics are among the leading contributors to pollution worldwide, but Kennesaw State University researcher Bharat ...

The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water.

a transparent 3D material made solely of cellulose. Testing of the material showed it worked as well as standard drinking straws, with no signs of the collapse seen in paper straws that are used ...

Every year, over 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced. About five percent of that ends up in rivers and eventually the sea, or is thrown directly into the ocean by the fishing industry.

The plant for manufacturing transparent paper was also set up at the same location at Tribeni, District Hooghly, West Bengal, in June 1961. It has the annual capacity to manufacture 3,600 metric tons ...