Bunches of bananas wrapped in plastic. A pre-peeled orange in a plastic box. Shrink-wrapped cucumbers. Over-packaged food has been bothering shoppers for years and supermarkets have responded by ...

Over the last year, Amazon.com Inc. has reduced the portion of shipments it packs in its cardboard boxes in favor of lightweight plastic mailers, which enable the retailing giant to squeeze more ...

Instead of tossing those plastic containers that fruit comes in directly into the recycle bin, try repurposing them in ...

This year recycling got a great deal easier. Investment in new technologies at recycling centres means that all plastic packaging waste, including soft plastic, can now be placed in your household ...

When it comes to recycling, most folks know to sort their plastic and paper, thanks to the blue and green plastic sorting bins given out by their municipal departments. But beyond the basics of ...

While online food platforms are becoming popular with the public, many of the restaurants that actually deliver the food are heavily reliant on plastic containers. Given the takeout sector’s reliance ...

“Many clients are aware of their carbon footprint, and they are already working on reducing it. So some of them tell me: no plastic, I don’t want to see any plastic, only paper,” says Raphael Bodaire, ...

From April 2022, businesses will be liable to pay Plastic Packaging Tax. We explore what it is and whether it will affect you Among other costs that are coming into effect next month, such as the ...