A new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country. The composite of inedible agricultural waste and mushroom roots is called Mycobond, and its ...

TIGARD, Ore. — A Tigard company has come up with an effective way to recycle that bulky, polystyrene foam packing material that takes up a huge amount of space in your garbage can and also in ...

It's been on the table for two years, and now, finally, today is the last day you'll see anything packed in pernicious polystyrene foam. Better late than never! You've interacted with polystyrene foam ...

Perdue Farms will start packaging some of its meat products in a more earth-friendly way with compostable foam made of cornstarch that disintegrates under running water. The company said the new ...

Single-use containers and packing peanuts made of polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam, will be banned in New York starting Jan. 1. Lawmakers banned the foam as part of the state budget in ...