Lobster bisque and shrimp cocktail make for scrumptious meals, but at a price. The food industry generates 6 million to 8 million metric tons of crab, shrimp and lobster shell waste every year.

There's now potentially one more use for discarded shrimp shells. Already, scientists have used chitosan – a natural antibacterial polymer found in crustacean shells – as an ingredient in self-healing ...

Electronic waste has emerged as one of the major environmental crises of the 21st century, and it only gets worse with every new innovation. As we’re encouraged to drop outdated devices and purchase ...

We’ve been looking at crab, and other crustaceans, all wrong. Going crabbing for food, digging into the (admittedly delicious) meat and tossing the shell away, all to end up in a landfill or compost ...

Weaving chitosan, found in the shells of crabs and shrimp, with an industrial polyester creates a promising new material for biomedical applications, including the tiny tubes that support repair of a ...