Minnesotans generate about 6 million tons of waste each year, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. In new efforts to reduce the harmful impacts, the state is adopting policy geared ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

Restaurants, cafes and other food-service businesses in unincorporated Marin could soon be required to use foodware that is reusable or compostable, prohibiting single-use plastics. At a public ...

IT WILL INCLUDE A BIG CLOSURE THIS SUMMER. NEW ON FIVE IF YOU’RE ORDERING TAKEOUT IN NEWTON. WE DO THAT A LOT HERE AT CHANNEL FIVE. THERE ARE SOME NEW RULES AROUND THE PACKAGING AND THE DISHWARE ...

Kraft Mac & Cheese is attempting to go green. The two-step macaroni brand is testing a sustainable option with a recyclable fiber-based cup, Kraft Heinz announced on Wednesday. Later in the year, the ...

Cleaner campus, cleaner conscience — one container at a time. Look closely at the image and you will see reusable containers in use in the wild at our Newcomb campus. Reusable cups and containers can ...

As waste haulers in Marin County, we are impacted daily by food packaging. This packaging often ends up in the recycling bin or the compost bin when it should not be. Here, it contaminates truly ...

Napa County is moving forward with a requirement that food providers use reusable or compostable foodware and accessories. The Napa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to declare intent to ...

The Green to Go ordinance celebrates 10 years of regulating Minneapolis food places to use environmentally friendly to-go packaging, including compostable, recyclable or reusable. Food businesses must ...

ROSEVILLE, Minn — The City of Roseville has become the latest municipality in Minnesota to enact some form of a ban on plastics in the hope of lowering pollution. The city is going after ...

A pile of unboxed packaging used by Choo Choo Bob's Train Store demonstrates the amount of waste the store throws away on a regular basis. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency along with local ...