Hilo restaurants could start serving food in stainless steel bowls and bento boxes next year. The project was funded in 2023 through a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ...

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New Dispatch Goods reusable containers have replaced singe-use to-go containers at University Student Center dining ...

Tourism generates staggering waste in Bar Harbor, according to a survey carried out by University of Maine researchers this past summer. The 25 Bar Harbor restaurants that responded to the ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Imagine takeout food but with less trash. Four New Hampshire Seacoast restaurants are giving that idea a shot through a pilot program that offers reusable takeout containers instead of ...

USEFULL to-go food container return stations are located throughout Pitt's campus to collect stainless steel containers that are replacing single-use plastic containers. The higher education market is ...

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 ...

Every year, billions of pounds of single-use plastics end up in landfills and some of these plastics can take centuries to decompose. But thanks to a new grant through DC's Department of Energy -- the ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- The city is partnering with downtown businesses and a company called Forever Ware to offer customers reusable steel containers as an alternative to single-use plastic or Styrofoam, ...

Foodservice packaging manufacturer Novolex has made a strategic investment in Ozzi, a reusable-container brand, that will leverage the sustainability expertise of Novolex’s Eco-Products business unit ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – April is Earth Month and Clean Water Action launched a new program on Thursday. Some area restaurants are taking part in Clean Water’s ReThink Disposable campaign. La ...