Person eating falafel from a styrofoam takeout container - Betsie Van Der Meer/Getty Images Whether you've ordered takeout or brought home leftovers from a restaurant, your food may be packaged in ...

The infamous Styrofoam restaurant takeout container: a friend to your leftover food and enemy to landfills or your already-cluttered cabinet/refrigerator — especially if the generosity of your ...

They come from the breakdown of everyday items like tires, clothing, and plastic packaging. Another key source is the tiny plastic beads commonly added to cleansers, cosmetics, and other beauty ...

Many biodegradable plastics on the market go into packaging or food service items such as cups and cutlery, however. The idea is to make greener replacements for petrochemical-based ...

Researchers are using bacteria that eat food scraps to create a new kind of fully biodegradable plastic that reduces waste and could be less expensive to manufacture than current plastics are.

Confidential Containers is an open source community working to enable cloud native confidential computing by leveraging Trusted Execution Environments to protect containers and data. Goals: Allow ...

Plastic takeout food containers are no longer being accepted for recycling and must be thrown out, Whatcom County’s waste hauler said in a social media post last week. Such containers include ...