Seaweed coffee cups could help ditch single-use plastics
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 06:50
in Earth & Climate
A significant amount of the single-use plastics that we use ends up in our oceans. As people increasingly ditch these plastics, seaweed—also known as macroalgae—and microalgae could be the solutions to the world's plastic food packaging problem. These are being used to develop everyday items, from edible water bottles to coffee cups to biofuels.