Dealing with dirty dishes is a daily fact of life for most of us, thanks to the fact that we’re feeding our families all day long. But some occasions call for more dinnerware than many of us have on ...

Pablo Päster is an energy and sustainability management consultant who wrote a weekly advice column for Treehugger from 2009-2012. The key to the question of durable vs. disposable lies both in the ...

The first single-use food service item was the paper plate, invented in 1904. Paper cups followed soon after. Over the next century, disposable cups, utensils and plates were developed in increasingly ...