Dunzhu Li used to microwave his lunch each day in a plastic container. But Li, an environmental engineer, stopped when he and his colleagues made a disturbing discovery: plastic food containers shed ...

Plastic cutting boards have been shown to shed microplastics in food. The underlying claim that plastic cutting boards have been shown to shed microplastics into food is true, based on findings ...

Owning a home means accumulating tools, but unless you have somewhere to keep them, they can get damaged or destroyed. If you don’t have a garage or basement—or maybe you do but they’re not set up for ...

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Tea drinkers have been urged to avoid plastic tea bags after tests found that a single bag sheds billions of particles of microplastic into each cup. A Canadian team found that steeping a plastic tea ...

Plastic bottles are not only piling up in our landfills and oceans. Research shows they also shed invisible plastic particles that end up in our bodies. A new study found that a one-liter bottle of ...

Discarded soda bottles, cigarette butts and fishing nets are some common examples of pollution in the ocean, but our problems with plastic don’t end with the pieces that you see. Laundry cycles see ...

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Plastic feeding bottles release an average of 4 million microplastic particles per litre into baby formula during preparation, but it still isn’t clear whether ingesting microplastics is harmful to ...

Hyderabad: A public shed at KPHB park, currently under construction, has been built out of the waste generated by the city. It took 800 kg of plastic waste to build the roof, 450 kg of tetra packs for ...