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 ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

In honor of Earth Day 2021 which takes place on April 22, we’re posting a short series devoted to issues of business and the environment. A typical trip to the store ends with multiple plastic bags ...

Do you ever feel like plastic packaging is the uninvited guest in your house? You've been told it's harmful to the environment – taking hundreds of years to break down – but somehow it ends up in your ...

Like it or not, plastic packaging has become an ingrained part of the food system. While it's clearly wasteful to buy salad, sandwiches and chips encased in plastic and then promptly throw that ...

According to a report by ocean advocacy organisation Oceana, Amazon’s plastic footprint increased by nearly a fifth (18 per cent) between 2020 and 2021. Amazon generated more than 300 million ...

Footprint's molded fiber packaging is a direct replacement for current plastic containers. There’s a fascinating twist to the origin story of Footprint, a Gilbert, Arizona-based maker of fiber-based ...