Green foam generally appears on fruit or produce, yellow foam is common for chicken packaging. Blue means seafood. But black, white and red foam is used for all types of red meat, the blog states.

In Nutrition Services, a switch to compostable, non-styrofoam food trays has been in the works for close to four years.Now, it’s officially a reality.“We are thrilled to bring this project to ...

Styrofoam recycling is picking up steam across the country, thanks in part to a Calgary-based company, but that doesn't mean it's coming to a blue bin near you.

The Dart Container Corporation, which makes foam products, is a manufacturing behemoth and produced a fortune for the family behind it. Environmentalists say its products are polluting the globe.

A National Meat Case study, published in the Journal of Animal Science in 2004, determined that the three most common tray colors are white at 39.6%, yellow at 22.4%, and black at 11.5%. Advertisement ...

For weeks, fourth graders Celine David, Maddie Woods and Dora Cabarcas have led a renewed push to ban single-use polystyrene, or Styrofoam, lunch trays from Houston ISD cafeterias.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A big change is coming to Virginia’s food industry. Styrofoam containers will be banned starting next ...

The school uses on average one case of Styrofoam trays a day with each case costing $16.67. Disposable trays would cost $51.47 per day. Over a 185-day school year, this would increase costs by ...

Making a Styrofoam mosaic is a whole lot of fun! It's an open-ended, colourful art project using one of my favourite thrifty craft materials: the Styrofoam produce tray.

NUMBERS GAME: The fact that a food package displays one of these symbols does not necessarily mean it can be recycled. Courtesy of 1800recycling.com ...