One thing we know for certain about death is that we will definitely run out of room to bury people in the very near future. The switch to universal cremation is inevitable. But even after we switch ...

The good news: Compostable packaging does actually turn to compost just like your food scraps do, which is way gentler on the ...

Such burials require no formaldehyde embalming, vaults or laminated caskets. Cynthia Beal talks about the Ecopod, a kayak-looking container made out of recycled newspaper from the United Kingdom, at ...

Some people say that death is the most natural thing in the world. It sure doesn’t feel that way when you’re flipping through a hefty binder with laminated images of metal and wood coffins, like my ...

Retailers have a smorgasbord of choices when they shop for fresh food containers. Because they serve consumers with different needs in diverse markets, retailers say there is no one plastic that can ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. It's nice to dream of a zero waste world, in which people ...

In recent times, there's been a rise in what's called "natural" or "green" burials — burial without a coffin or casket. The remains go into a biodegradable container, are buried, and quickly decompose ...

EcoPure has won another customer for its additive technology that renders plastic bottles biodegradable. SodaStream International Ltd. (Airport City, Israel) will utilize Bio-Tec Environmental LLC's ...

In an effort to mitigate consumer confusion and help maintain the integrity of recyclable materials streams, three laws proposed in North Carolina and Alabama would require containers made from ...

, marking that company's first purchase order. The preforms are injection molded from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and the EcoPure organic additive, which reportedly renders the bottles ...