Sustainability Insights & Environmental News

Over one billion HDPE milk and juice jugs are discarded in the United States every year — fewer than 30% ever recycled, the rest spending 500 years fragmenting into microplastics. PHA milk and juice jugs biodegrade completely in soil, marine, and compost environments, match HDPE performance exactly, and require zero retooling. The dairy industry's answer to a billion-jug-a-year problem.

Over 4 billion plastic pill bottles are discarded in the U.S. every year — with less than 10% ever recycled. PHA pill bottles biodegrade completely in soil and ocean, eliminate microplastics, and match HDPE pharmaceutical performance. The pharmacy industry's answer to a 450-year problem.

Made from plant sugars — corn starch, sugarcane, cassava — PLA clamshell boxes deliver identical clarity and structural rigidity to conventional PETE plastic, while breaking down completely in industrial composting facilities within 90 days. Zero microplastic residue.

Conventional clamshell containers are a leading source of microplastic pollution — used for hours, fragmenting for centuries. PHA and PLA bioplastic clamshells deliver the same clarity, rigidity, and secure closure without leaving a single microplastic particle behind.

PHA and PLA compostable cups and lids are transforming food service — delivering genuine biodegradability for hot coffee cups, cold smoothie cups, dome lids, and flat lids alike. Here's everything you need to know about making the switch away from plastic.

PLA was the first commercial-scale answer to plastic bottles. PHA is the emerging next generation — produced by bacteria, it biodegrades in soil, freshwater, and even the ocean. Here's how they compare to each other, to conventional PET, and to the microplastic crisis they both aim to solve.

Every time a child sips through a plastic straw, they are exposed to microplastics and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. PHA straws — made by bacteria from organic waste — biodegrade completely in soil, freshwater, and ocean, leaving nothing harmful behind for our kids or our planet.

Every minute, the equivalent of a garbage truck load of plastic enters our oceans. What happens next is invisible to the naked eye — but it affects every living thing on Earth. Here's what you need to know, and what we're doing about it.