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Former Iron Chef America contestant Edward Lee opened a plastic-free fine dining restaurant, Shia, in Washington, D.C.
One mom on TikTok shared a clever way to make baby bottles out of mason jars, avoiding plastic and saving money.
The Food and Drug Administration says that the current use of BPA and certain phthalates in food packaging is safe. But some experts have disagreed, citing studies that have linked exposures to the ...
Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...
Promoting sustainability is a good reason to ditch your plastic food containers, but it's not the only motive. Here's why you ...
Using plastic food containers may be a cost-effective option for storing leftovers, but it also has some dangerous drawbacks.
Microplastics are really small pieces of plastic — less than five millimeters long on one side or about the size of a pencil eraser. That means some of them are visible to the naked eye, but others ...
By adding citric acid and squid ink to a cellulose-based polymer, researchers created a variety of structurally colored ...
A new study reveals an alarming number of mechanisms throughout the life-cycle of plastic that could enhance or spread ...
If you were using a contaminated spatula, the study said, you could be exposing yourself to 80 percent of the daily EPA limit ...
Dr. George Collis, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center, has noticed a shift.