A recent study found high levels of flame retardants in everyday black plastic cooking utensils, food storage containers, and ...

Black-colored plastics used in electronics are leaching flame retardants into kitchen utensils, toys and food containers, a new study found.

However, this growth comes at a significant environmental cost. Plastic waste, greenhouse ... Scientists analyzed the liquid waste, or leachate, released by four Illinois landfills and the inflows ...

A recent study published in Chemosphere, a scientific journal covering environmental chemistry ... a take-out sushi tray, a black plastic spoon, and a children’s pirate necklace.

A spoon, some towel hooks, a piece of kettle and a plastic cap – that's all you'll need to make a mixing deck if you have the technical and musical skills of DJ Boboss. The 27-year-old – real ...

Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from space. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia developed a new satellite imaging ...

Eco-friendly and biodegradable plastic using bacteria has been developed at the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, according to the report of Martin Javier for Game Changer on "24 Oras" on ...

If you're in the plastic production business, you might just be praying for a Trump victory on Nov. 5. As countries prepare to jet off to Busan, South Korea, later this month to negotiate a binding ...

A new database details the presence and relative concentrations of over 3500 chemicals found in samples of plastic. The researchers who complied the database warn that despite efforts to monitor these ...

The material in question is called black plastic, and many cheaper kitchen utensils - spatulas, fish slices and serving spoons, for instance - are made from this recycled material, which can ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ten states on Friday called on the U.S. government to go beyond backing production caps in a global plastic treaty, and support a pact that rejects "false" solutions ...