Meal kits are notorious for their packaging problem: A typical delivery might come with insulation, gel-filled icepacks, and tiny containers or bags holding individual ingredients–like a few leaves of ...

More companies are realizing the importance of sustainable packaging, including Fresh Del Monte Produce, which has launched reusable plastic boxes for its banana shipments. As reported by ...

The USC Sustainability Strategy 2030 and President Carol Folt’s Zero Waste Inauguration plans have highlighted the school’s enthusiastic pursuit of environmental sustainability, and food ...

As consumer concern mounts about the waste generated by e-commerce, some companies are beginning to embrace a variety of reusable packaging strategies. Kate Daly, managing director of Closed Loop ...

Boox, the direct-to-consumer reusable packaging behind Boyish Jeans and clean skin care brand Ren, wants to stand out from the masses. The company just closed its $9.25 million Series A led by Valor ...

Boxes: everyone uses them, everyone ends up with way too many of them in the basement, and yet no one seems interested in improving them. Except for LivingPackets, that is, a startup focused on ...

If you order a Whopper from certain Burger King restaurants in New York City and Portland, Oregon, next year, you’ll have the option to get it in a reusable box. In a new pilot, the restaurant chain ...

The era of e-commerce has brought choice, convenience, and cardboard boxes. Oh, so many cardboard boxes. “Everything goes in packaging these days,” said Chantal Emmanuel, co-founder and CTO of ...

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Every day, millions of shipments are delivered to every corner of the globe. And when they arrive, the cardboard, plastic, Styrofoam and pallets protecting the goods are thrown away, recycled or ...

Fast-food companies are testing whether customers will be willing to return sturdier, reusable packaging to stores as part of efforts to reduce the amount of waste their restaurants produce.