In a groundbreaking initiative, scientists and climate activists are turning to an unexpected source in the fight against plastic pollution: baby diapers and fungi. Yes, you read that right—diapers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hiro Technologies Co-Founder Miki Agrawal poses with a diaper and a pouch full of plastic-eating fungi at her company’s laboratory ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A dirty diaper could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: how do we clean up all of our plastic waste? HIRO Technologies hopes these diapers could help ...

Once thrown away, disposable diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because they contain plastics and other synthetic polymers. But now, researchers are replacing these ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross to you, but one Texas company believes it could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: How do we clean up all of our ...

Never put plastic bags in curbside recycling. Ever. So says Jake Anderson, general manager of Republic Services, the company that runs the recycling plant in Tucson. (An Arizona Daily Star reader once ...

But it’s not likely to happen just yet because the city opposes the idea and the city is the only local customer of the composting company, Orgaworld. "The city is still in control," said company ...

Products will look different - and cost more. They will also likely get damaged far more easily.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That's the idea behind a new product launched by an Austin, Texas-based startup that sells disposable diapers ...

NEW ORLEANS, March 19, 2024 — Once thrown away, disposable items such as diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because their absorbent parts and waterproof layers contain ...