A surprisingly robust, green alternative to plastic packaging was developed using the hemp plant, instead of expensive fossil ...

Researchers have developed a hemp-derived plastic alternative that could minimize the negative environmental impacts of ...

As the global pollution crisis caused by manufacturing and disposing of single-use plastics continues to grow, researchers ...

The new plastic is remarkably high quality, researchers say. Image from the study. For years, chemists have been on a quest ...

A “green” alternative to plastic packaging has been developed from a form of cannabis. Scientists developed the non-toxic ...

Governments worldwide are enforcing recycled content mandates that are altering material sourcing, design, and supply chains. Concurrently, U.S. scientists have created a hemp-derived thermoplastic ...

As our planet grapples with the burdensome legacy of plastic, it appears we may have been looking in the wrong place for a solution. We turned to complex chemistry and elaborate technological ...

Reducing plastic production should be one of the goals of all of us who inhabit the Earth. Two brothers from Nebraska, Andrew Bader and Steve Bader, are doing their part in saving the planet from ...

A hemp producer based in Dayton, Ohio has a new customer for its crop after the firm signed a deal with a processor in nearby Michigan to provide raw material for hemp-based bioplastics. Under its new ...

“I envision a future where the Fords, the GMs, the Stellantis’ of the world take plastics out of their automobiles and infuse them with industrial hemp to replace those plastics, thus reducing their ...