French startup Bibak (formerly known as La Consigne GreenGo) has amassed $6.4 million (€6 million) in an equity funding round and debt. The company wants to put an end to single-use plastic food ...

SMITHFIELD − At colleges, hospitals, military installations, resorts and big business campuses, there is one giant source of waste: Single-use food-to-go containers, usually made of plastic. Across 49 ...

Boston University Dining Services met many of its sustainability goals for the 2025 fiscal year, including significant use of ...

Five things to consider when it comes to reusing or replacing food storage containers. Experts share their best tips.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) updated federal food code supplemental guidance makes it easier for states to allow people to refill and reuse containers in restaurants, bulk grocery ...

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Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Oregon on Monday became the 10th state in the U.S. to ban polystyrene foam ...

McDonald’s Corp has indicated it doesn’t want the reusable containers it had to incorporate in France for dine-in customers due to a law to expand elsewhere, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Taelor Ferrer is a sophomore and lives in student housing. Like most students, she often just comes to the dining hall at UH Manoa’s Gateway House for takeout. Now, while she puts down the books for ...

Michael Martin likes to tell people he sells “ugly cups.” The hope is no one will like them enough to want to keep them. Martin, who runs a reusable serveware company called r.World, tried offering ...