Forever Ware's pitch to Namaste Cafe was simple: Use our reusable containers for your customers and cut down on disposable containers going to landfills. So was the answer two years ago from Namaste ...

Jeannette Wright constantly reuses plastic food containers, whether it’s to carry snacks for her two young sons or store last night’s dinner in the fridge. That is, until they get dirty. Or she loses ...

MILWAUKEE — Jeannette Wright constantly reuses plastic food containers, whether it's to carry snacks for her two young sons or store last night's dinner in the fridge. That is, until they get dirty.

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Starting this semester, reusable takeout boxes at the Sharpe Refectory and Verney-Wooley dining halls have replaced disposable ones. The boxes, the product of a new partnership between Brown Dining ...

Faced with an unholy tonnage of chip bags, soda bottles, takeout containers and other disposable plastic items flowing into our landfills and our waters, winding up in wildlife, drinking water and ...