Sip, return, repeat: ‘Nation’s first’ citywide reusable cup launches as chains look to shrink waste footprint. Backers hope the new pilot project in Petaluma, California, will stop hundreds ...

Next month, more than 30 chain restaurants and locally owned coffee shops and eateries in Petaluma, California, will begin providing beverages in reusable cups by default as part of a first-of-its ...

As single-use plastic piles up in landfills and pollutes oceans, event spaces are turning to food packaging that can be washed and reused hundreds of times.

The reuse advocacy group Upstream says the average stadium hosting 300 events per year goes through 5.4 million single-use cups and 63.75 tons of plastic waste. Relying on reusable polypropylene ...

PepsiCo originally aimed to design 100 percent of its packaging to be recyclable, compostable, biodegradable or reusable by this year, but has lowered that target to 97 percent or greater reusable, ...

The purple bins and the purple cups put in them were all part of a groundbreaking 3-month experiment called the Petaluma Reusable Cup Project. An investment firm called Closed Loop Partners had ...

At the end of the show, guests can return their r.Cup to any of the onsite recycling bins. From there, Red Rocks staff will sort all the waste to ensure the cups and other reusable and recyclable ...

Bold Reuse CEO Jocelyn Quarrell partnered with the city to bring reusable plastic cups to Spectrum and Ovens Auditorium, both owned by the city. Quarrell said reuse simplifies a convoluted — and ...

This story was updated July 31, 2024 at 4:12 p.m. Editor's Note: An earier version of this story said South End Café would not participate in the Coffee Shop Reuse Network. It has been updated to ...

A few years ago, Oceana, a conservation group, estimated that a 10 percent increase in reusable beverage packaging by 2030 could eliminate over 1 trillion single-use plastic bottles and cups globally.