"Preventing [this] is very much possible." Researchers issue urgent warning after discovering 'invisible' threat in everyday ...

What should you do if your styrofoam-packaged takeout has gone cold, or you're eating the leftovers the next day? Can you ...

Legislation would provide a five-year phaseout of styrofoam containers used to serve or package ready-to-eat food ...

Barbies and Cabbage Patch dolls defined the term “plastic people.” Today, each and every one of us is said to consume upwards to a credit card’s worth ...

Germans don't export white asparagus, they eat it all themselves, but they do import it from countries like Spain or Italy, ...

“And that plastic is leaching into our food.” Fulfer’s research has shown that even tiny ... s safe for the container to be ...

Microplastics are in our water, air and seafood. It's been recently discovered to be in chewing gum, too. Here's what to know about microplastics in your foods. Taylor Leamey Senior Writer Taylor ...

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Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in ... The material was combined there, mixed using different extruder screw geometries, then melted at ...

Oosterman does not dispute this. “What it really does differently is melt plastic without viscous shear.” “It’s absolutely true, plastic is an insulator; it doesn't like to conduct heat,” he says.

But industry experts say it’s difficult to know where plastic ends up or get rid of it completely, even with the best intentions of reuse and recycling programs. According to a 2021 report on plastics ...

Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that’s just as stable ... which is a common food additive, and monomers based on guanidinium ions, which are used in fertilizers.