Fresh produce growers and exporters are worried that proposed restrictions on plastic packaging regulations advancing globally will have tremendous consequences on food safety and waste, and are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

The food and beverage industry is inherently tied to plastic. As much as 40% of global plastic packaging is dedicated to the sector, with the vast majority of ready meals, bread, rice, cereals, meat, ...

Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society. Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious ...