WE refer to your recent report “Malacca bans plastic bags” (The Star, Dec 30). Plastic bags and polystyrene (PS) containers should be recycled instead of being banned. Cancel anytime.

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 ...

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There’s no need to rely on wasteful, single-use baggies anymore. These days, there are endless companies making reusable Ziploc alternatives, composed of materials ranging from silicone to recycled ...

That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the ...