Resources and References

Supporting materials, links, resources and references that support Orb Media’s research on the rise of disposable food packaging during COVID-19.

For transcripts of our original interviews and the full list of experts Orb Media interviewed, see Expert Interviews.

1. Fast-Food Chains See Shifts Made During Pandemic Paying Off

2. Early Impacts of COVID-19 on Eco-friendly Food Packaging Market - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets

3. Plastic waste surges as coronavirus prompts restaurants to use more disposable packaging

4. Flexible Food Packaging Market in North America | COVID-19 to have a Positive Impact on the Growth of the Market

5. Food Service Waste and COVID-19

6. Growing plastic pollution in wake of COVID-19: how trade policy can help

7. Plastic Food Packaging and Sustainability During COVID-19

8. Using lots of plastic packaging during the coronavirus crisis? You’re not alone

9. Study Reveals Ways COVID-19 Affects Plastic Packaging Manufacturers

10. Plastic packaging: Hero or villain in the coronavirus era?

11. DoorDash files to go public

12. Covid has accelerated the adoption of online food delivery by 2 to 3 years, Deliveroo CEO says

13. 4 trends defining delivery during COVID-19

14. Foodservice sector turning to disposable packaging to ‘prevent’ Covid-19 spread

15. 26 Online Ordering Statistics Every Restaurateur Should Know in 2020

16. Food delivery industry in the U.S. - statistics & facts

17. The Rise of Ghost Kitchens and the Impact on Contactless Delivery

18. The pandemic has more than doubled food-delivery apps’ business. Now what?

19. 2020 Food Delivery Service Statistics You Need to Know

20. How COVID–19 Has Transformed Consumer Spending Habits

21. Change in online food delivery penetration share of the restaurant market in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic from 2020 to 2025 [Paywall]

22. Torn between safety and environmental concerns, restaurants stick with disposable serveware [paywall]
    

1. Center for Environmental Health's Database of Single-Use Food Service Ware Products Tested for Fluorinated Additives

2. Biodegradable Products Institute list of certified (PFAS-free) products

3. Food Packaging Forum publishes food contact chemicals database

4. Overview of intentionally used food contact chemicals and their hazards

5. Food Packaging Forum retailer and brand initiatives database

6. Report: Avoiding Hidden Hazards - A Purchaser’s Guide to Safer Foodware [pdf]

7. Report: Safer Materials in Food Packaging

8. A Guide for Quick-Service Restaurant Chains: Banning PFAS in Food-Contact Materials [pdf]

9. Packaged in Pollution: Are food chains using PFAS in packaging?

10. Take-Out Toxics: PFAS Chemicals in Food Packaging

11. Clean Production Action - Plastics Scorecard

12. Responsible Purchasing Network: Food Service Ware

13. Policy briefing: Towards safe food contact materials in a toxic-free circular economy

14. Food packaging in the circular economy: Overview of chemical safety aspects for commonly used materials

15. Impacts of food contact chemicals on human health: a consensus statement

16. Benchmarking the in Vitro Toxicity and Chemical Composition of Plastic Consumer Products

17. Are bioplastics and plant-based materials safer than conventional plastics? In vitro toxicity and chemical composition

18. Environmental Impacts of Packaging Options

19. Report: The FoodPrint of Food Packaging

20. Is Biodegradability a Desirable Attribute for Discarded Solid Waste? Perspectives from a National Landfill Greenhouse Gas Inventory Model

21. State policies on PFAS

22. Global Efforts to Curb Single-Use Plastics

23. Single-Use Plastics 101

24. Green Screen for Safer Chemicals

1. Report Highlights Reusable Models that Instill Confidence During the Pandemic

2. Reopening with Reusables during COVID-19

3. Food packaging, reuse, and COVID-19

4. Reusables are Doable

5. Study: Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Disposable vs Reusable Foodservice Products [pdf]