While many cities across the world are banning plastic grocery bags in an effort to cut back on waste, one city in California is taking it one step further by targeting disposable containers and cups.

NEW BRAUNFELS — The City Council on Monday banned disposable food and beverage containers from waterways within the city limits, ignoring threats of a lawsuit from river-oriented business owners who ...

SMITHFIELD − At colleges, hospitals, military installations, resorts and big business campuses, there is one giant source of waste: Single-use food-to-go containers, usually made of plastic. Across 49 ...

Jeannette Wright constantly reuses plastic food containers, whether it’s to carry snacks for her two young sons or store last night’s dinner in the fridge. That is, until they get dirty. Or she loses ...

At Middlebury College, pandemic-safe dining options have led piles of disposable waste to build up around campus. Photo by James Finn/VTDigger From disposable masks to takeout-food containers, ...

MANCHESTER: We are facing a waste crisis, with landfills across the world at full capacity and mountains of “recycled” waste dumped in developing countries. Food packaging is a major source of this ...