An international collaboration project, the Celtic Crustacean Collaboration, is working to develop a new plastic-free food packaging material from food waste. The research is being led by CuanTec ...

The plastic films CuanTec makes out of shellfish shells that are left over from seafood production is naturally antimicrobial and lets people keep using plastic wrap without worrying about plastic.

Material derived from crab shells and wood pulp could replace flexible plastic packaging Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a material from two naturally-occurring ...

Opinion: we should be doing a lot more with the 1.5 megatonnes of crab and shrimp shells, tails and unused meat than just dumping it The amount of material left over from crab and shrimp production in ...