Switching to compostable food-service packaging can dramatically increase food scrap diversion rates, but only if it’s coupled with sufficient infrastructure and instruction. That was a chief takeaway from a study the Foodservice Packaging Institute released Jan. 19.
An industry training and awareness program focused on vehicle safety kicked off Monday, just weeks after a report showed that occupational deaths among collectors were on the rise in 2015.
Features from the December 2016 print edition:
- Electronics reuse and recycling in Peru, a photographic journey
- Insights on OCC
- Lifting more than recycling rates
- Study up
- The safe way is the only way
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