WAILUKU – Big and small businesses say that a bill restricting polystyrene disposable food containers in Maui County will increase costs for them and for their customers and has another major flaw – ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday (Feb. 3) that it plans to ban disposable food utensils made of biodegradable plastic. The EPA plans to implement the ...

The simple brown cardboard box surrounding a Big Mac costs McDonald’s Corp. only pennies. A biodegradable version, by contrast, is costing EarthShell Corp. millions of dollars, not to mention the ...

Faced with 3,000 cubic feet of daily Styrofoam waste following a shift to in-room food delivery, Kisco Senior Living has ditched disposable containers for reusable versions from G.E.T. Enterprises.

When a dry leaf sheath of a betel palm falls to the ground, it is hard, tough and worthless. Sumalee Phinyo sees it otherwise. For more than 20 years, she has added value to the dry leaf sheaths by ...

Goodbye Picnic Plastic: Bamboo-Sugarcane Tableware Biodegrades in 60 Days Once the coronavirus pandemic is over, we’ll be able to picnic for the planet without guilt: Scientists searching for ...

IAS officer Supriya Sahu is doing her bit for the planet and also asking her followers to think about the environment and make green choices. A few days ago, Sahu shared a video clip to promote ...

A decade ago, few people carried their own coffee mugs or cloth shopping bags to cut down on waste, but now the practice is de rigueur. Yet visit any food court in Vancouver and a countless number of ...

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