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In a bid to better reduce single-use packaging and plastics, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill giving the green light for restaurant patrons in the Golden State to use their own reusable ...

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If you order from DeliverZero, a third party delivery service in New York City, your food will look different than the usual pile of plastic containers: instead, it will come in reusable clamshells.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The huge demand for restaurant takeout and delivery during the novel coronavirus pandemic is creating a serious side effect for the environment. Most takeout food comes with a ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- The city is partnering with downtown businesses and a company called Forever Ware to offer customers reusable steel containers as an alternative to single-use plastic or Styrofoam, ...

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.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Our throw-away culture has us drowning in waste. In 2020 alone, over 22 million pounds of single-use plastic entered the Great Lakes. That's why a Chicago company is reimagining the ...

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Oregon on Monday became the 10th state in the U.S. to ban polystyrene foam food containers, dealing another blow to a plastic whose chemical components have been linked to cancer and nervous system ...