Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

Experts weigh in on when it is safe to use takeout containers for food storage and heating up leftovers. "Most food-safe containers from restaurants can be used as storage for a short period of time, ...

If your house is anything like mine, you’ve got a kitchen cabinet filled to the brim—no, overflowing—with plastic food containers. Maybe some are ones you’ve bought expressly for the purpose of ...

Hongkongers will have to switch to reusable containers to cut 70 per cent of the waste generated by single-use plastic takeaway receptacles, an environmental organisation has found. The “Eat Without ...

Empty yogurt containers do not have to head straight to recycling. With a little creativity, they can become useful and ...

A mum has sparked a debate after sharing the unusual way she organises her pantry. Lakshmi revealed she recycles plastic juice bottles and water bottles and uses them as 'jars' in her cupboard, which ...

When you start making more things at home, syrups, salves, jams, cleaners, ferments, you realise pretty fast that “just stick ...

Alejandro Gallego Schmid receives funding from UKRI. The authors would like to thank Dr Caroline Wood for her writing assistance, language editing, and proofreading of this article. Adisa Azapagic ...