If you were using a contaminated spatula, the study said, you could be exposing yourself to 80 percent of the daily EPA limit ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable. Plastic chemicals are a core issue because all plastics, from food packaging ...

In a nutshell Recycled plastic pellets from India, Nigeria, and Taiwan leaked 84 different chemicals into water, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and plastic additives — with ...

The lining on the inside of a nonstick pan is made of plastic. When heated, it can release toxic fumes; when scratched, it ...

When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do ...

The world has a plastic problem and it seems to be getting worse. A study released in late April found that chemicals in plastics were potentially associated with as many as 350,000 heart disease ...

You may not be aware, but we eat plastics. Research suggests that the average person may ingest up to 5 grams of plastic per week, about the weight of a credit ...

A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study with researchers from University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can ...

The debate over whether to install turf over grass fields has become a referendum on sports, health, the environment and the ...

A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study by researchers from the University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can ...

Dwelling precariously on wave-battered, remote islands of the Pacific, Tristram’s storm petrel seems to inhabit a world ...

The Trump administration granted two Indiana chemical and sterilization plants an extension to comply with EPA pollution ...