• Sustainability

One Cool Thing: Think Outside the Sauce

• fast food
• food
• recycling
• taco bell

“Recycling just got saucy.” Taco Bell has announced that it’s teaming up with recycling firm TerraCycle to keep its iconic sauce packets out of landfills. The company says that more than 8 billion of their spicy sauce packets end up in landfills each year, but with this new partnership, those friendly packets can become something […]

• Sustainability

Burger King Debuts Reusable Packaging Program

• Burger King
• fast food
• Loop
• packaging
• plastic
• recycling
• waste

Burger King recently announced a new renewable packaging partnership with Loop, a “circular packaging” service that aims to create a “closed-loop” system of washable and reusable packaging in the food industry.

Why This Matters: The United States has one of the worst recycling rates of any developed nation, recycling only 50% of the packaging used.

• Food

The FDA Reaches Agreement With Companies to Phase Out Food Packaging Containing PFAS

• #fightforeverchemicals
• #ForeverChemicals
• Environmental Working Group
• fast food
• FDA
• PFAS

Last week, in a major but voluntary step, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had secured and agreement with three manufacturers to phase out food packaging that uses the “Forever” chemical called 6:2 FTOH – one of the PFAS chemicals that has been linked to cancer. 

Why This Matters:  Many states are beginning to ban PFAS chemicals in food packaging, so this announcement by the FDA is a step in the right direction.