Baby carrots in one plastic bag. Pretzels in another. A third for the PB & J. A family of four throws out 103 pounds of plastic bags, wrap, and sacks a year—equal to 6,867 plastic grocery bags! And ...

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Om Goods, seller of stainless-steel, leach-free food containers called Tiffins, wants you live a zero-waste lunch lifestyle. By carrying your own lunch, utensils, cloth napkins, water container and/or ...

On a hike to a remote beach while living in Hawaii five years ago, entrepreneur Lindsey Hoell noticed from a distance that the sand looked colored. “I picked up a handful of it, and it was [full of] ...

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I have the fondest of memories of my grade school lunch bag. In consideration of my love for magenta, my mom chose a rectangular, semi-squishy, insulated little magenta tote with a bright teal lining.

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Single use packaging from Kingussie High School's canteen accounts for 9% of the secondary's rubbish A Highland secondary school is to trial the serving of lunch items in reusable containers to help ...

A Highland secondary school is to trial the serving of lunch items in reusable containers to help it cut down on waste. Single use packaging from Kingussie High School's canteen accounts for 9% of the ...