— Google is inviting food and beverage companies that offer single-use, plastic-free packaging solutions to apply for its Single-Use Plastics Challenge to reduce the food service industry’s plastic footprint and implement more sustainable solutions at its own sites.Google hopes to cut single-use disposable products out of onsite food service operations and implement more reusable packaging, distribution, and delivery solutions. Each product is expected to meet federal, state, and local food safety regulations, as well as the Google Food programme’s health, environmental, social, and financial standards. As 91% of plastic goes unrecycled and ends up in landfill or the environment, according to National Geographic, Google hopes that its initiative will contribute towards wider industrial action to usher in a circular economy for packaging.