First I switched to always using a metal water bottle (my beloved Owala FreeSip !), and never touching the single-use ones.

Recycling the wrong things makes the whole system run slower. Here are seven takeout containers that don't belong in your recycling bin.

If your house is anything like mine, you’ve got a kitchen cabinet filled to the brim—no, overflowing—with plastic food containers. Maybe some are ones you’ve bought expressly for the ...

And doing this does not prevent us from also working to ban single-use plastic take-out containers, utensils, stirrers, straws, etc. If other cities can make reusables work, so can we.

The red lids snap onto the containers, creating a tight seal that keeps food fresh for two to three days longer than if I had merely stored them in Ziploc bags or plastic take-out containers.

A small but growing number of restaurants are moving away from single-use plastic take-out containers, which usually end up in the trash because they can’t be recycled. By Meg Wilcox. May 28, 2024.

Microplastics, chemicals, and a whole slew of other deadly problems can stem from just a few seconds of reheating in a plastic take-out container. Non-safe plastic containers shouldn’t just be ...

A typical takeout scenario: You buy a meal to go, eat every bite, rinse the container and toss it in the recycling bin, just like you’ve done many times before. Wait. Don’t do that, not… ...