Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic ...

If you have a spatula made of recycled black plastic, go to your kitchen, grab it and throw it in the rubbish. Immediately. That is the alarming message from a new study published in the journal ...

US scientists have devised a new method of recycling black polystyrene, however, simply using sunlight and an ingredient that's already present in the plastic. SUBSCRIBE AD-FREE LOG IN ...

But researchers are now saying products made from recycled black plastic contain even more toxic components. The authors of the Chemosphere study found that everyday household items that are made ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula. In a world of plastic consumer ...

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Now, a study published in Chemosphere, which was led by researchers at Toxic-Free Future and the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment at Vrije Universiteit, gives even more reason to ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

"I think there's been an awareness problem," Turner said. "People assume that black plastic can be recycled, but often it can't." But the demand for black plastics is incredibly large ...

The study found detectable levels of flame-retardant chemicals in black plastic kitchen utensils, take-out containers, toys and accessories sold in the United States. Some of the products the ...