You’re going for a hike this weekend and you need a portable, healthy snack. As you do your normal grocery run, you grab a delicious banana from the rack. To pay for the banana, you scan a produce ...

What began as a marketing flourish in the early 20th century has become a quiet backbone of modern grocery retail.

Woolworths has described its new plan to reduce food waste as a “revolutionary concept”, but a leading environmentalist has slammed the decision as showing a lack of “foresight”. By putting tiny ...

Probably a good thing Paul Cezanne did his painting a hundred years ago. You would hate to see all his still-life fruit immortalized in a wooden bowl with a bunch of plastic produce stickers ruining ...

Like a lot of kids her age, Maya Thiru worries about the environment. The 10-year-old from Markham, Ontario, wanted to do something to make a difference. So, with help from her mom, she started ...

A nation-leading ban on plastic fruit stickers has been paused in one state over fears the cost will prove too great for farmers. The state was set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to ...

When 10-year-old Maya Thiru goes grocery shopping, the stamp-sized oval stickers on rows upon rows of produce don’t look small at all. The Grade 5 student at Black Walnut Public School in Markham is ...

Keen gardener Rachel Wilson maintains four compost bins in her back yard. The end product is a lovely soil she uses to nourish her vegetable garden. But while digging the compost into the soil, Wilson ...