Designer Alice Potts combined food waste with flowers from London parks to create a series of bioplastic face shields for the NGV Triennial. More about Alice Potts makes bioplastic face shields from food waste
Dezeen Showroom: Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis has designed two lights for Established & Sons made from cylindrical bars of pastel-hued bioplastic resin. More about Aura lights by Sabine Marcelis for Established & Sons
Zero is a concept for an incentive-based food-delivery system by PriestmanGoode that could encourage consumers to use and return bioplastic containers to takeaway restaurants. More about PriestmanGoode creates reusable fast food packaging from cocoa bean shells
Designer Robert Johnson presents a panel discussion around his Fatconomy system, which explores using London's wastes a sustainable material, as part of VDF's collaboration with the Design Museum. More about Robert Johnson discusses how to use waste fat as a sustainable material in talk for VDF and Design Museum
Design studio Ammunition and light manufacturer Gantri have partnered to design 3D-printed wall sconces and lamps made from a corn-based material. More about Ammunition and Gantri 3D print lamps from plant-based materials
An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. More about UK student's fish-waste bioplastic MarinaTex wins 2019 James Dyson Award top prize
New York designer Charlotte McCurdy has fashioned a water-resistant jacket from a plastic made of algae. More about Charlotte McCurdy creates "carbon-negative" raincoat from algae bioplastic
The UK government has called for experts to help it develop standards for bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, amid rising concern over greenwashing. More about UK government moves to end "vague and misleading" bioplastic terminology
University of Sussex graduate Lucy Hughes used fish waste to create MarinaTex, a compostable alternative to single-use plastic that has won her this year's UK James Dyson Award. More about Fish scale bioplastic wins UK James Dyson Award for student design
Industrial design studio PriestmanGoode swaps single-use plastic for ground coffee beans and rice husk in its overhaul of throwaway cabin service goods from meal trays to toiletries. More about PriestmanGoode shakes up air travel to eliminate single-use plastic
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has developed an orange juice bar that turns the waste fruit peel into 3D-printed bioplastic cups to drink the contents from, as an example of the circular economy in practice. More about Carlo Ratti's orange squeezer serves juice in bioplastic cups made from the peel
Corn husks, wool and yoghurt pots are some of the materials used in a series of experimental spectacles by British eyewear brand Cubitts. More about Cubitts makes Redux glasses from waste materials including human hair and potatoes
Designer Elissa Brunato has created the Bio Iridescent Sequin, a shimmering bead made from natural cellulose that is more sustainable than regular plastic sequins. More about Bio Iridescent Sequin made from trees responds to growing demand for greener fashion
Italian furniture brand Kartell has released a "fully sustainable" version of its bestselling Componibili storage unit made from bioplastic. More about Kartell creates bioplastic version of its iconic Componibili storage unit
Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. More about Aivan grows headphones from fungus and yeast
German designer Basse Stittgen aims to address the issue of global food waste and overconsumption with a series of tableware objects made solely from out-of-date eggs. More about Basse Stittgen gives discarded eggs new life as bioplastic tableware
Bags made of supposedly biodegradable plastics remain intact and useable three years after being dropped in the sea or buried underground, researchers have found. More about Biodegradable plastics offer "no advantage" over conventional plastics in reducing ocean pollution
Bioplastics could potentially be worse for the environment than conventional plastics, according to recycling expert Arthur Huang. More about Bioplastics could be "just as bad if not worse" for the planet than fossil-fuel plastics
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to architect Arthur Mamou-Mani about the design of Conifera, his 3D-printed bioplastic installation for COS, in this talk filmed by Dezeen during Milan design week. More about Watch our talk with Arthur Mamou-Mani about his bioplastic COS installation
Reykjavík design studio At10 has created a bioplastic meat packaging made out of the skin of the animal itself to reduce waste surrounding meat consumption. More about Icelandic design studio makes bioplastic meat packaging from animal byproducts