Compost material is gathered at a county facility in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. MUST CREDIT: Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post Slowly but surely, Americans are getting into composting. Curbside ...

Inside your refrigerator and pantry, plastic is everywhere. There’s plastic wrap, storage bags and bins, clamshell takeout containers, beverage bottles, and condiment tubs, of course. Plastics ...

After striking a grand compromise over plastic packaging in 2022, lawmakers are back at the negotiating table with another proposed ban. The food industry, however, is calling for patience while ...

Plastic food packaging, especially single-use containers, is a growing problem for the food industry. According to the UN Environment Program, 460 million tons of plastic is generated each year ...

They’ve been found in your liver, blood, and even brain—microplastics are everywhere. While they’re nearly impossible to ...

You probably think your home-cooked meals are healthier than takeout, right? Fresh ingredients, your own clean kitchen, nothing weird mixed in. Here's the thing though: while you're carefully reading ...

(The Hill) — Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found. Once there, these chemicals can mimic — or disrupt — the ...

Plastic takeout containers, snack wrappers, and food packaging are everywhere. And most of them end up in landfills or incinerators. But one Chinese company is proving that this trash doesn't have to ...

Melodea Ltd., Rehovot, Israel, a producer of sustainable barrier coatings for packaging, has introduced MelOx NGen, which it describes as a high-performance barrier product engineered to allow for the ...