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 the ...

I’ve decided that clamshells are cool for clams but infuriating for the rest of us. Have you ever tried to sneak some leftover chow mein, a grocery-store cookie or fruit-topped slice of cheesecake at ...

Why it is possible to recycle soda bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate plastic, but not the ubiquitous clamshell containers made of the same stuff? —Not Happy as a Clam My last two columns were ...

Recycling is about to get greener in central Ohio, thanks to artificial intelligence. "Rumpke is berry egg-cited to announce that clamshell plastic containers are now recyclable," Rumpke Waste & ...

Iowa City will no longer accept plastic clamshell containers for recycling, both at the curb and at the city-run recycling centers. Recycling Coordinator Jane Wilch wrote in an email to The Daily ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland company up has come up with a way to deal with those plastic to-go containers often called "clamshells." They are no doubt a headache. You can't put them in curbside ...

A recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision is important for retail defendants who operate self-service businesses that require customers to handle the goods they seek to purchase. Grapes have been ...

Even if you're fully dedicated to going plastic-free and buying food products that come packaged in alternative materials, it often feels next to impossible to do this with berries. Whether they come ...

With some exceptions, clamshell polystrene single use containers like these will be banned starting January 1. AMSTERDAM – Even though New York's ban on the use of polystyrene foam in certain kinds of ...