This year, consider not only the gardening gear and plants you bring home, but also whether they’re made of, contained in or ...

Polymer chemists and a toxicologist told me that polypropylene is the best plastic for non-toxic food storage. Here are the ...

Plastic particles can enter tea in several different ways - and teabags may play a bigger role than many people realize.

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Microwaving plastic containers can release millions of ...

Plastic is everywhere—even in the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. CR’s recent tests of nearly 100 foods found two types of chemicals used in plastic, bisphenols and phthalates, in a wide ...

Burning plastic can also put a cocktail of dangerous chemicals into the air, including dioxins, polycyclic aromatic ...

Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population ...