A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent.

There's a fresh new take on school lunch packaging, and it's catching people's attention for all the right reasons.  ...

A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent. Accessibility statement Skip to main content ...

After learning about how their plastic foam lunch trays were not only harming the environment but also themselves, three students jumped into action and started gathering their classmates' signatures.

In the end, the cost of the trays is slightly higher than the plastic foam trays the school is using now, but still within their budget, and they are healthier for people as well as the ...

Plastic food packaging has become composters’ greatest challenge. People are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their bins, contaminating the compost.

River Oaks Elementary School fourth-graders Celine David, Maddie Woods, and Dora Cabarcas, all not in picture, uses a polystyrene foam lunch tray as an element on a billboard for their petition to ...

A National Meat Case study, published in the Journal of Animal Science in 2004, determined that the three most common tray colors are white at 39.6%, yellow at 22.4%, and black at 11.5%. Advertisement ...

This new foam material is demonstrated to be a viable replacement for Styrofoam products and single-use plastics, like food packaging trays, as it achieves all the benefits of plastic but doesn't ...

A new report by Oceana warns plastic foam has become an “ever-present part of modern life” and must be phased out at a local, state and national level.

Foam cups, plates and other tableware are banned in Washington starting Saturday. The ban is the latest phase in the state’s 2021 law that seeks to reduce the use of plastic products that end up ...