Plastic is ubiquitous. It’s in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest. Every year, the world ...

Rothy's exchanged plastic water bottles for shoes this Earth Day to create awareness around the cost of single-use plastics. Rothy’s made an interesting offering this Earth Day: a new pair of Rothy’s ...

Grove Collaborative's new Beyond Plastic™ digital badging system is designed to help customers make informed, educated purchasing decisions to reduce their consumption of single-use plastic. Customers ...

Items: Single-use plastic water bottles up to a 1 liter, containers over 1 liter are considered multi-use and not part of the reduction for this order. Timeline: Immediate phase-out has begun. Unless ...

Of the 400-million-plus tons of plastic that the world produces each year, more than a third is only used once before it’s thrown out. Each minute, by some estimates, the equivalent of a garbage truck ...

A promising new material created from plants could help replace the single-use plastics that dominate our everyday lives. Developed by researchers in Japan, this cellulose-based paperboard is durable, ...

The Del Mar City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 6 on a second reading of an ordinance that further bans single-use plastics and noncompostable food service items within the city. Council ...

Single-use plastics like drinking straws don’t dissolve over years. Instead, they gradually crumble into tiny pieces of debris. Imagine marine birds or your local birds mistaking these ...

Graphic Packaging International has introduced paperboard sushi packaging designed to assist foodservice operators in adhering to European packaging regulations. The company noted that its latest ...

Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to a question from a reporter after signing a series of executive orders including 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, a pardon for ...

World’s first plastic-neutral retailer also expands industry-leading transparency through Beyond Plastic™ badging on website to provide further customer education about sustainable packaging “This is ...