WELCOME EDITORS

We’re so glad to share our research on Hidden Threats in Your Takeout. Here’s how we suggest you use this package:

  1. Review the Reporting Project Overview and Orb Media’s global story on Hidden Threats in Your Takeout. These are your springboards to your own coverage decisions.

  2. Find which grouping your country appears in within our Global Model, to make this story even more relevant to your audience.

  3. Review our list of Proposed Leads and Angles for help on how to localize this information for your audience.

  4. Once you dig into reporting in your region, review our background research documents, references and available media assets for you to use. Feel free to reuse or build on anything we provide.

How to Identify Safer, More Sustainable Disposable Food Packaging

An Original, Research-Driven Methodology And Product Review Developed by Orb Media

How can anyone evaluate one-to-one replacements for disposable food service ware designed to be less harmful to health and the environment? It’s not easy. Orb Media has set out to create a basic methodology that anyone can use to ask the right questions, get the answers, and direct themselves toward safer, more sustainable choices.

Orb Media conducted extensive research into the safety and sustainability of disposable food service ware, as well as a thorough study of currently available and newly developed products and materials which offer an alternative to conventional plastic and paper around the world.

Having reviewed scientific studies, special reports, news articles, and other sources, as well as conducted interviews with some of the world’s leading experts on food packaging safety and sustainability, we:

  • Develop a methodology  for evaluating the health and environmental impacts of disposable food service ware, based on publicly available information that anyone can access.

  • Determine,  by applying that methodology, the best available materials and technologies[2]  of disposable food service products currently available around the world. Here, we have identified five major product categories, and paired each preferred material or technology with one or more representative products to assist in identifying better choices.

 

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