According to a 2013 study by PCI Films Consulting, 17 billion plastic pouches ended up in landfills throughout the U.S. that year and production is expected to reach 24 billion plastic pouches by 2018 ...

Bunches of bananas wrapped in plastic. A pre-peeled orange in a plastic box. Shrink-wrapped cucumbers. Over-packaged food has been bothering shoppers for years and supermarkets have responded by ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fort Pierce, FL, develop a small plastic pouch to make food safer. Sanitizers are often used to ...

Before you toss that food take-out container into the recycling bin with good intentions, you should know a surprising amount of plastics aren't recyclable.

If Sue Princiotto has one message, it's that its-laS-tik is better than plastic. Try saying that three times fast. Her new product has a rather tricky name, but a simple objective: reduce the ...

Milk consumers in Maharashtra can heave a sigh of relief as the government has agreed to take a lenient view and allow the use of plastic pouches for packaging of milk until further notice. After ...

Kenya’s updated plastic packaging regulations set out tighter controls on how plastic materials are produced, imported and ...