Dear Readers: Today’s Sound On comes from a reader complimenting a large chain restaurant’s effort to recycle. She wrote: “I want to commend a local restaurant for their carryout containers. “I ...

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Though much could be said about the Trump administration’s retreat from climate action and the disappearance of funding to state and local governments, there is still a lot we can do on a local level ...

USEFULL to-go food container return stations are located throughout Pitt's campus to collect stainless steel containers that are replacing single-use plastic containers. The higher education market is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Rumpke recycling customers will soon no longer have to stuff their trash cans with bulky produce clamshell packaging and cumbersome plastic carry-out containers. Rumpke Waste ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — To help reach the city's sustainability goals, community leaders are probing downtown Kalamazoo diners to see if they would be interested in recycling and reusing take out boxes.

Rhode Island's war on plastic has advanced from bags and straws to the little sticks that stir peoples' drinks and polystyrene take-out containers. State senators on Thursday voted 33 to 2 to ban ...

Roseville considering ban on foam take-out containers Other metro cities like Minneapolis, St. Paul, Edina and St. Louis Park have already shifted to rules requiring greener to-go containers; ...