Performance apparel company Prana is going deeper to get even greener — literally — with a new product polybag made from a proprietary "innovative material" based on an abundant underwater resource: ...

It’s slowly becoming more well known that plastic waste is becoming a major environmental hazard, and some designers and engineers are trying to find ways to replace plastic used for packaging and ...

UK-based materials innovation company, Kelpi, has raised £4.3 million ($5.5 million) to accelerate the commercialisation of its seaweed-based packaging technology, aiming to replace single-use plastic ...

A growing ecosystem of companies is seeing the benefit in protecting the seas.

Sway, the California startup replacing plastic packaging with seaweed-based solutions, has sealed a $5 million seed round. It’s a major leap forward for a 2023 winner of the Tom Ford Plastic ...

A Sway polybag made from TPSea. Sway’s portfolio includes flexible packaging applications such as polybags, retail bags and food wrappers for consumer brands. The California startup called Sway spent ...

UK start-up Searo is addressing the plastic problem with a seaweed-based alternative for flexible packaging, flow wrap, and single-use cups. In the food and beverage sector, plastic serves an ...

Traditional cups contain plastic linings that make them difficult to recycle — so Notpla is using seaweed instead.