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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 & ...

If you have curbside recycling, you won't have to send your clear, plastic "clamshell"-style containers to the landfill anymore. The Municipality of Anchorage announced Wednesday that residents in ...

The City of Brandon announced Thursday that it will no longer be recycling #1 plastic food containers — which have hinged lids, clips at the front and are often used to hold fresh berries, grapes and ...

When Whatcom County residents learned recently that trash and recycling hauler Sanitary Service Co. wasn’t accepting clamshell containers anymore, the folks at Ridwell, a waste reduction and recycling ...

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 ...

Take note Toronto, you can now toss that blueberry container in a blue bin. The city's Public Works and Infrastructure committee is moving ahead with a plan to recycle "clamshell containers" — like ...