These buzzwords are increasingly appearing on utensils, to-go cups and food containers and other kinds of disposable packaging. While you might think the dizzying array of products could be a simple ...

It was hailed as a wonderful thing: During the oil boom in the 1950s, chemists began to render the waste coming out of refineries into plastic — plastic packaging, plastic furniture, plastic fibers ...

Greg Pryor of the composting company Recology holds a handful of processed compost at the integrated waste management's compost site in the San Joaquin Valley town of Vernalis in June. He tries to get ...

Keurig has unveiled plans for brand-new coffee pods that are compostable and not made from plastic. The new K-Rounds pods will be made of coffee beans that are pressed and wrapped in a plant-based ...