We use plastic tubs for everything from taking our sandwiches to work to storing food in the freezer and reheating leftovers in the microwave. But are they safe and should we be looking for ...

Discarded plastic food packaging has adverse effects on the environment, releasing harmful greenhouse gases when dumped in landfills, and polluting rivers and oceans. This problem was exacerbated ...

Approximately 60% of all plastics produced worldwide are used for food packaging (1). That means that of the 380 million metric tons of plastics produced in 2015, 228 million metric tons were food ...

A new study finds more than 3,000 chemicals used in food packaging are getting into people's bodies. Some — including BPA, phthalates and PFAS — have clear health concerns; others are unstudied.

If you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable cardboard container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of "forever chemicals" called PFAS — and so do other kinds of paper food ...

In 1938, a 27-year-old chemist named Roy Plunkett stumbled across a new type of chemical, one with a bond so strong it would end up sticking around long after he died—in fact, almost forever. Today, ...

Kari-Out, makers of takeout food packaging containers, invested over $10 million in sustainable paper manufacturing to support their work greening restaurant leftovers. Kari-Out is a leading ...

From its Fresh ‘n Clear line, Placon, a North American plastic packaging designer and manufacturer, has launched its newest line of stock food packaging containers designed to give maximum versatility ...