(CNN) — “Life in plastic; it’s fantastic,” so the song goes, but in reality, plastics and the chemicals used to create them have been increasingly linked to numerous harms to human health and the ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

The public is starting to understand that they can find microplastics in their food, particularly seafood, but exposure from ...

A new Curtin University-led study has shed new light on the widespread number of households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, uncovering serious international ...

While it’s generally OK to store food in plastic containers labeled with a 1, 2, 4, or 5, you should try to use glass. Plastic marked with a 3, 6, and 7 should be used minimally around food to limit ...

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 ...

Humanity’s relationship with plastic isn’t just broken—it’s absurd. We’re now churning out a trillion pounds of it a year—an altogether more stunning figure when you consider that the material is ...

Thousands of cases of frozen tater tots are being recalled amid concerns they may contain pieces of hard plastic, federal ...