Tips like this are a reminder that using what you already have is the easiest way to save time and money. Home cook reveals ...

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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.

Environmental blog Tiny Waste wrote that American households use around 500 Ziploc bags a year. A container ... food security, economic growth, and environmental prosperity." In addition to these tips ...

Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner ...

Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the ... of single-use plastics in healthcare, food retail and e-commerce.

to food to thrive on. It has, after all, been just eight years since plastic-eating microbes were first discovered, in Japan. In 2016, researchers from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio ...

A New Study Found Cancer-Causing Flame Retardants on Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils and Food Containers It used a "basket analysis," which showed the "proportion of routinely purchased items in a ...

Thimphu, the capital, is the leading producer of waste—both dry and wet—yet discussions surrounding waste reduction frequently prioritise plastic over this pressing issue, overlooking the urgent need ...

BOISE, Idaho — Boise's blue recycling carts will now be accepting plastic #5 food containers. Republic Services made some upgrades to their Idaho Recycling Center, which allows Boise residents ...

Toxic chemicals leak from plastic film and containers into food. Massive amounts of plastic waste get dumped into the environment, where it ends up in waterways and oceans and threatens marine ...

Roseville's new Green To Go ordinance requires takeout containers to be recyclable, compostable or reusable. The ordinance passed unanimously and is similar to ordinances in nearby cities.