Adding sugar helped to "plasticise" their seaweed material and was the breakthrough they were looking for. A powder ...

Inside the lab of the Bay Area-based startup Sway, a sample of a thin piece of transparent material looks like the plastic typically used in shopping bags and wrappers. Another sample, green and ...

Russell Reed is an interdisciplinary environmentalist dedicated to building a more inclusive environmental movement. He is a founding member of Sway, a company building seaweed-based replacements for ...

After you finish your fries, eat the ketchup packet. When you add your pasta to boiling water, toss the bag into the pot, too. If these instructions sound confusing to you, it's only because you haven ...

The San Francisco-based company says its seaweed resin-based products can be manufactured using standard injection-molding equipment. Loliware’s seaweed utensil set is made from seaweed resins and ...

It’s being reimagined as a plastic substitute, even as cattle feed. But can seaweed thrive in a warming world? Climate correspondent Somini Sengupta reported from South Korea with photographer Chang W ...

Covid 19 has brought with it a major impact to the environment. A recent study has found that more than 25,000 tons of pandemic related plastic waste leaked into the ocean, while eight million tons of ...