The European Union has proposed new laws to ban some everyday single-use plastic products including straws, cutlery and plates ... plastic bans in the U.S. The restaurant industry in the U.S ...

Silverware and ceramic plates may be the next to go ... While environmentalists have long criticized plastic products for polluting oceans and overwhelming landfills, state and local leaders ...

The more than 7,000 residents of Fort Bragg may be among the first forced to dine off paper plates ... restaurant owners and fine-dining connoisseurs, that pain has come in the form of plastic ...

A proposed ban on single-use cups, utensils and other plastics in Stamford’s restaurants and other businesses was sent back ...

Plastic plates, bowls and trays that are used as ... it is set to include packaging for food and drink that is eaten at a restaurant, cafe or takeaway, according to the paper.

04 apiece for the plastic trays. And while the compostable plates will clearly help teach kids about renewable resources, Goldstein says he hopes they will also be a way for schools to pressure ...

When contacted, the restaurant’s manager ... “Around 7pm, there was no water suddenly, so we had to use plastic cups and plates,” he told FMT, adding the charge was because they had to ...

Now Oyster Oyster is taking on wine waste, becoming the first restaurant in the country to turn its used bottles into plates. “Within this region, and as a country, recycling is kind of this false ...

In September, France joined in, outlawing the bags along with non-biodegradable plastic plates, cups and cutlery ... pushed primarily by the Michigan Restaurant Association, which argued ...

The ban will cover plastic plates, trays, bowls, cutlery, balloon sticks and certain kinds of polystyrene cups and food containers, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra ...