For instance, despite its cardboard-like appearance, biodegradable paper food packaging can't go into the paper recycling stream. And things like plastic bags and plastic wrap shouldn't be tossed ...

There are machines that can pull food from its packaging and separators that can blow lightweight plastic bags and cling wrap ...

Inside your refrigerator and pantry, plastic is everywhere. There’s plastic wrap, storage bags and bins ... some plastics can leach out of packaging into food, and end up ingested and absorbed.

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to ...

The Golden State is aiming for a 25% reduction in plastic packaging ... the way packaging presents information about a food product may also be changing. Instead of printed labels or stickers ...

In May, the company announced that change was coming, not to the price, but the packaging, which would switch from a domed, hard-plastic clamshell-style case to a plastic bag. Now, as the planned ...

Thin, flexible plastics — like plastic bags, food wrap and packing material — are among the least likely to get recycled.

Industrial and commercial establishments in Oman are urged to prepare for these changes The ban includes both biodegradable and non-biodegradable plastics, such as shopping bags, waste bags, food ...