Japanese researchers have developed shopping bags made from potato starch that dissolve in water and leave no microplastics ...

The new plant-based bags vanish in water, but whether they can truly replace plastic will depend on cost and scale.

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

So you're boiling potatoes for a mash. Your first instinct might be to toss that pot of water after removing your spuds from the boil. But you might want to hold off on disposing of it, as potato ...