THINK you’re doing the right thing for the environment by using biodegradable plastic bags? Boy, have we got some news for you. But a new Senate inquiry into the threat of marine plastic pollution in ...

At the town of Breckenridge’s open house on plastic bags, a community member suggested we switch plastic bags to biodegradable bags. What’s the deal with biodegradable bags and do they really break ...

We shop, we throw things out. For the most part, we put it all in bags. So it makes sense to make a greener bag. But making sense of greener bags can make you feel ... well, bagged. As biodegradable ...

The idea of a “biodegradable” plastic suggests a material that would degrade to little or nothing over a period of time, posing less of a hazard to wildlife and the environment. This is the sort of ...

Agricultural scientists in Uganda have invented biodegradable plastics from agricultural waste, with a target of having nursery bed operators use them for wrapping their seedlings. The move aims to ...

The damage caused to the global environment by dumping of non-biodegradable polythene bags has posed a global threat to the environment as polythene does not perish even after 500 years, according to ...

Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we're discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. You can be part of the community discussion by joining our Facebook group. In a ...