If you buy a smoothie in Portland, Oregon, the drink might come in a compostable plastic cup, a choice a thoughtful owner might make to make their operations more sustainable. You might think, at a ...

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If you are a restaurant owner or manager, here is a simple way to impress customers and possibly attract new ones: Switch your current take-out containers to eco-friendly compostable containers. Why ...

On January 1, Berkeley, California rang in the New Year by putting a new rule in place requiring all cafés and restaurants to start charging 25 cents for disposable cups. The cups, in addition to lids ...

Compostable food containers seem like a great idea: They degrade into nutrient-rich organic matter, reducing waste and the need for chemical fertilizers. But much of this packaging relies on per- and ...

As the days of polystyrene to-go food containers are quickly disappearing, we’ve seen the rise in popularity of molded fiber bowls: containers made from natural pulp byproducts that, unlike their ...

This Earth Month, Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) reminds the community of incentives it has for local businesses, restaurants ...

An investigation by The New Food Economy shows that compostable takeout containers are made with a potentially dangerous chemical that doesn’t break down. View post: Surfer Kai Lenny on the World Surf ...

Most compostable food containers, however, need a commercial facility to decompose properly. File/Dean Fosdick/AP At Charleston County's Bees Ferry Composting Facility, the only one in the area, ...

Plant-based compostable plastics are going to landfill rather than recycling because almost all Welsh councils are unable to deal with them. The growth of the anti-single use plastics movement has ...