Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic takeout food containers are no longer being accepted for recycling and must be thrown out, Whatcom County’s waste hauler ...

If you frequently purchase croissants from Costco's bakery section, you've probably ended up with at least a few empty plastic clamshell containers. These clear, semi-hard, stackable cases display ...

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 ...

Weekly grocery shopping and cleaning out your refrigerator or pantry are common chores that leave you with more useless, empty containers than you know what to do with. Especially when it comes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atlanta-based foodservice packaging developer Better Earth Compostable products has launched its new two- and three-taco clamshell containers and also has announced the expansion of its team with four ...

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 ...

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 ...

Costco's items tend to come in large containers, and we have a handful of interesting ways to reuse them in your kitchen, ...