TômTex, the company behind the innovative biomaterial made out of shrimp shells, has secured $4.15 million in funding. According to JustStyle, the fundraising for the Brooklyn-based startup has come ...

Scientists have developed a green way to create chitin, by using two forms of food waste - prawn shells and discarded fruit - and fermenting them. Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, ...

Plastic bags are a global problem. Annually, some one trillion of them are used around the world, and fewer than 5 percent are actually recycled. This means a massive buildup of waste, litter, and ...

(Nanowerk News) The shells of crustaceans and wood waste such as branches pruned from trees usually end up in landfills. These waste materials are given a new lease of life to become nutritional ...

Researchers in the UK are working on a fishy idea that just might help the environment in Egypt. The concept? Use shrimp shells as an ingredient in creating green shopping bags. Since plastic bags are ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a green way to create chitin, by using two forms of food waste - prawn shells and discarded fruit - and ...