When you toss a plastic bottle into your recycling bin, there’s no guarantee it actually gets recycled. In fact, odds are, it doesn’t. According to the World Economic Forum, just 14% of plastic ...

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As consumer concern mounts about the waste generated by e-commerce, some companies are beginning to embrace a variety of reusable packaging strategies. Kate Daly, managing director of Closed Loop ...

PepsiCo says it is stepping back from its target of 20% of all beverage servings sold through reusable models by 2030 to concentrate on key packaging markets where it anticipates its initiatives will ...

For several months last year, patrons of a Seattle coffee shop called Tailwind Cafe had the option of ordering their Americanos and lattes in returnable metal to-go cups. Customers could simply borrow ...

ZURICH, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Nestle (NESN.S), opens new tab has increased the share of recyclable or reusable packaging for its products to 87%, making progress towards its 100% goal by 2025, and gave ...

Refilling a bottle instead of throwing it away has become a popular way for people to reduce waste — a small, tangible action in response to larger environmental problems. But whether refilling ...

Little tangible progress has been made in the past year by the UK’s largest supermarkets towards reducing their use of throwaway plastics, says a report which calls for a focus on innovative solutions ...

Fast-food giant McDonald’s MCD says new French law prohibiting using disposables in restaurants would bring operational and financial challenges for the industry. What Happened: France is readying to ...

National Harbor, Md. — California may be hitting pause on implementing its extended producer responsibility law, but four other states with packaging EPR are moving ahead, and that's going to keep ...