Seven Ways Seven Days Gets You Through the Week: Trustworthy local reporting. Piping‑hot food news. Thoughtful obituaries. Must‑do events. Stuck in Vermont videos. Eye‑opening personals. All the fun ...

Restaurants, cafes and other food-service businesses in unincorporated Marin could soon be required to use foodware that is reusable or compostable, prohibiting single-use plastics. At a public ...

Compostable foodware manufacturer Terravive is on a mission to reduce global plastic pollution using the strength of innovation and American manufacturing. With a 100-item product line that includes ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It looks like plastic, it feels like plastic, and it holds your ...

Falling in line with new state requirements that go into effect in 2026, the Napa County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance Tuesday to ban single-use plastic bags and foodware. The new ordinance ...

The ordinance requires the use of reusable or compostable foodware for in-house dining, and compostable or recyclable foodware for take-out. The Calistoga Green Committee, which advises the city on ...

As waste haulers in Marin County, we are impacted daily by food packaging. This packaging often ends up in the recycling bin or the compost bin when it should not be. Here, it contaminates truly ...

A new report from Beyond Plastics, an NGO, claims that very little of the bioplastics labeled as compostable can be composted by consumers. “Compostable” bioplastics can only be broken down in ...