As an example, picture a plastic bottle of orange juice. The shelf life of the juice is about two days. Its PET plastic bottle will take more than 700 years to degrade. By contrast, seaweed ...

Two birds with one stone Indonesia is the world’s second-worst offender in terms of dumping plastic into the sea. 90% of their plastic ends up in the ocean. And 70% of that waste comes from food ...

Now there's a possible remarkable new one at Sway, a San Leandro-based startup. "At Sway, we're using seaweed as a replacement for plastic," said Marsh. "Our material is 100% compostable in both a ...