plastic alternatives

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Seaweed harvesting in the Philippines. (ILCP (IDB) via Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Jewel S. Cabrera
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Seaweed may help solve the plastic pollution problem, with a little help from materials researchers at Flinders University in Australia and a German biomaterials developer.
The future is here. Where is our trash?

(Orange County Archives/Wikimedia)

Mahalia Dryak
Planet Forward Correspondent | Reed College
In 1957, Monsanto’s House of the Future predicted what living in 1986 might be like. Made almost entirely of fiberglass and plastic, where is the house now?