Some plastic alternatives need to be put in industrial compost facilities or require acres of land for production. Sway’s seaweed plastic needs neither. Inside the lab of the Bay Area-based startup ...

After using a new straw, you can compost it in your backyard, or even eat it. The straw, made with seaweed, looks and acts like plastic while someone is drinking, but if it ends up in the ocean, it ...

Plugging leaky pipes, composting, and adding seaweed to dairy cows’ diets may not seem to have anything in common, but all three are ways organizations across New England are working to reduce the ...

Sustainable packaging start-up Notpla has closed a £10 million Series A financing round, led by Horizons Ventures. Founded in 2014 by Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre-Yves Paslier, Notpla develops ...

Unable to afford fertilizer back in the Azores, Raymond Xavier's great-grandfather would gather seaweed and plow it into the ground. The family later made its way to Providence, where Xavier's ...

From a pile of seaweed to a packet of soy sauce. The London startup Notpla has created a plastic alternative from seaweed that's biodegradable — and even edible. And it's hoping it could put a dent in ...

This article examines how seaweeds serve as sustainable superfoods that promote brain, gut, and cardiovascular health while ...

Farmers and gardeners have used seaweed as mulch and fertilizer for centuries, and Mainers are lucky to have a free, abundant supply dumped on their shores year-round. The stuff brims with ...

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