The team's experiments showed that crayfish shells could adsorb around 70 milligrams of polystyrene, a common plastic, per ...

A team of students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London has developed a method that turns lobster shells into biodegradable "plastic." Operating under the name The Shellworks ...

A diver was determined to save a small coconut octopus taking shelter in a plastic cup as a replacement for natural ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but ...

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste has ...

Shell describes its new packaging as, "an innovative product called Ecobox, an alternative to traditional plastic packaging for motor oil." Back in 1965, a winemaker in Australia had a novel idea.

Packaging made from recycled crustacean shells could reduce the need for plastic wrappings to preserve fresh vegetables, reduce oil consumption and give food a longer shelf-life. Chitosan ...

Raw scenes like this, which lay bare the toll of plastic on wildlife, have become familiar: The dead albatross, its stomach bursting with refuse. The turtle stuck in a six-pack ring, its shell ...

"It is inevitable that these creatures will interact with and be affected by plastic pollution," she said. The problem is worsened by the fact that hermit crabs don't have a shell of their own.

A team of students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London has developed a method that turns lobster shells into biodegradable "plastic." Operating under the name The Shellworks ...