The Biodegradable Products Institute is focusing on bringing more clarity to compostable packaging’s future in California, ...

Regulatory questions cloud the segment’s future, as do concerns about feedstocks, material capabilities and compostability ...

While the group is concerned about contamination from synthetic polymers broadly, it’s open to evaluating individual ...

The Green Team at my church campaigned unsuccessfully for a policy of using — and washing — reusable dinnerware at church functions. Then we campaigned successfully for a policy of using all ...

WATSONVILLE — Watsonville is taking plastic off the menu, approving sweeping bans that target trash stemming from restaurants and hotels — and give the city among the most aggressive single-use waste ...

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 ...

Henry Gabriel, Honolulu’s Recycling Program Branch Chief, joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss the evolution of and compliance with the City’s nearly decade old “plastic bag ban,” ...

Eat out — but don't throw it out. That's what the city of Encinitas has tried to encourage when it comes to dining and plastic leftovers. However, the city's ban on styrofoam and plastic straws in ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed an executive order immediately ending the city's purchase of unnecessary single use plastic food ware. The order, announced Thursday, targets plastic ...