Bioplastics are plastics made from renewable biological material, usually plants, waste, or microorganisms rather than petroleum or natural gas. Many bioplastics can be far more beneficial to the ...

Most bioplastics can’t be put into the same municipal recycling streams as other plastics, since they can contaminate the other plastics and make the whole batch unusable. Many consumer-facing ...

“Unfortunately, the word ‘bioplastics’ does not have a standardized definition,” Eve Fox, the digital director at Beyond Plastics, said in an email. Fox explained that bioplastic can refer to plastics ...