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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent Reddit thread posed an important question about compostable packaging: What if you don’t have a compost bin? “What to do ...

The U.S. Plastics Pact today released updated design handbooks, providing comprehensive guidance for designing plastic packaging that can be successfully reused, recycled, or composted within existing ...

You grab a compostable coffee cup from the office kitchen, feel quietly good about it, and toss it into your backyard compost ...

"Everything has a liner these days and it's maddening." ...

Quick-service restaurants with Seattle locations are well aware the city's "foam ban" goes fully into effect July 1. That means throw-away packaging can no longer be made of expanded polystyrene and ...

TIPA, a compostable packaging company, makes fully compostable bags for shipping products in multiple stages of the supply chain. Swapping out traditional plastic bags in the food and fashion ...

A Nelson based potato chip company has released two new flavours with a twist – home compostable packaging. The Proper Crisps packaging is part of its move towards zero waste. Proper Crisps head ...

Israeli company Tipa, an award-winning developer of compostable packaging solutions for food and goods, has nabbed a $70 million investment, the firm announced on Sunday. Founded in 2010, Tipa makes ...

The “best-by” labels on food packaging don’t tell you if the food inside is safe to eat. Food often lasts days or even weeks longer, and these printed dates are one of many reasons that Americans ...