Green Polymers,

Brighter Futures

We are engaged in the R & D of eco-friendly materials, "Green Polymers", for a clean and cool future.

2026 Spring Admission - Graduate School of Food and Population Health Sciences. We are currently recruiting graduate students (please note that the entrance exam format differs from Graduate School of Science and Technology, Gunma University).Contact us here.

Welcome to

Green Polymer Laboratory

What's New

Osaka Expo 2025-

We exhibited some of the achievements of the moonshot project at the Osaka Expo.

Site update-

Footage introducing our Moonshot PJ (EN)
20250701_update_Recent academic achievements
Research

20250501 Published-

Why is polyethylene difficult to biodegrade? ー Clarifying the boundaries of biodegradability through meta-omics analysisーSTOTEN 977, 2025, 179365

20250122 Published-

Chemical synthesis of biodegradable plastics reveals why they degrade slowly in the ocean—Microbes work together to break down hard-to-degrade plastics in the ocean—ACS SRM. 2025, 2, 343–353

Hear the summary

Promotions-

Research on marine biodegradable plastics is being conducted in collaboration with the Circular Polymer Laboratory (Prof. Tachibana).
Dr. Suzuki was promoted to Assist Prof(Lecturer).

Everyday life in our lab, update-

20250510_Preliminary field experiments.
20250315_Sampling seawater in Sendai.
20250310_Sample installation at Miyazu, Kyoto.
20250309_Sampling water in Yura river, Kyoto.
20250303_Sampling seawater at Ajigaura, Ibaragi.
20241209_Sample installation at Oki islands.

20250404 Entrance ceremony— Gunma University Spring Entrance Ceremony for 2025 was held at the ALSOK Gunma Arena.

20250404_Entrance ceremony

20250324 Press conference—

Gunma University Center for Food Science and Wellness has developed a jelly containing mannose in collaboration with Yukiguni Agri, and it will be released for sale.

Press conference

20250107 Press release —

Bacteria capable of rapidly degrading chemically synthesised biodegradable plastics in the ocean, which are slow to degrade in the ocean.

20250216 Press appearances— An article introducing the new graduate school was published in the Nihon Nogyo Shimbun.

20250216_日本農業新聞（Full article）

20241205 Press conference—

Gunma University Center for Food and Health Science renewed “Konjac Beer” with Asama Kogen Beer Co.

20241205_NIKKEI

Media appearances—

The NHK E-television Science ZERO program about marine plastic pollution will be re-aired.

NHK-E TELE Science ZERO
202041027_23:30-0:00
20241102_11:00-11:30

20241015 Media appearances— Ken-ichi Kasuya, Director of the Center for Food Science and Wellness, will appear on TBS Radio's “Takeo Morimoto, Standby!

20241015 TBS radio

20240913 Press conference—

A press conference was held at the Gunma Prefectural Government regarding the establishment of the Grad School of Food and Population Health Sciences, Gunma Univ.

NHK news

20240718 Press release-

Ecolex FG2, a plastic film developed by Gunma University Center for Food Science and Wellness and Fukusuke Kogyo, has received the international certification of marine biodegradability, OK Biodegradable Marine certification from TUV AUSTRIA.

20240710 Press release- Successfully developed technology to rapidly decompose biodegradable plastics in marine environments ~ Collecting microorganisms in the ocean and having them consume plastics ~

20240509 Press release-

New Path to Microbially Degradable Plastic Synthesis by "Main Chain Editing" - Synthesis from Propylene, Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Peroxide

20240911_Science Japan

20240126 Press release- Demonstration that biodegradable plastics can be degraded in the deep sea. Sunshine for solving the problem of plastic marine pollution.

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