I’ve been noticing lately a lot of “green” businesses and restaurants in my area using compostable plastics, usually made of corn, if I recall correctly. I can’t compost (I know, I know, but I live in ...

Thirty minutes north of Omaha, outside Blair, Nebraska, the aroma of steaming corn—damp and sweet—falls upon my car like a heavy curtain. The farmland rolls on, and the source of the smell remains a ...

PLA, or corn plastic, is made with Midwestern corn, not Middle East oil. Its production releases fewer toxic substances than making petroleum plastic and uses less energy, spewing an estimated ...

MOLINE- Wednesday, July 11, Rock Island County Farm Bureau Manager DeAnne Bloomberg will show me how to make corn plastic during Good Morning Quad Cities. According Ag in the Classroom, Corn plastic ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The future of corn-based plastics is good news for the environment and for Minnesota corn growers, according to University of Minnesota Chemical Engineering and Materials Science ...

It takes about a month for plastic bags made from corn to degrade in a compost, said Randy Klein of the Nebraska Corn Board. A similar oil-based plastic bag could take centuries to decompose.Coca-Cola ...

One of Australia's largest producers of sweet corn and beans has reduced plastic packaging on its produce by 80 per cent, saving hundreds of thousands of disposable plastic trays from entering ...

DENVER (AP) - The man who started a company that first mass-produced a biodegradable plastic water bottle made from corn remains locked in a legal fight over the company's 2007 demise. David Zutler, ...

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) -- If America wants to reduce its consumption of oil and the buildup of slow-degrading plastic in landfills, one answer is softly swaying in the wind on farms across the country. Some ...