Lowering plastic consumption is vital for our personal health, and experts have identified items you can eliminate.

"Some might see a plastic egg carton, but I see a mini greenhouse to start seeds in." Gardener shares free planting hack ...

Fact checked by Jillian Dara There’s yet more evidence that exposure to plastics can be harmful to health. Recent research ...

Cleaning product company Ecover will 'totally rethink plastic' after warning that just seven per cent of plastic bottles made ...

What’s the problem with black plastic? A recent peer-reviewed analysis of black plastic household products, including food trays and kitchen utensils, found that 17 out of 20 items tested (or 85 ...

Author Adam James Pollock told Newsweek the best option for home cooks is to get a wooden cutting board to avoid microplastics.

"It was interesting, exciting, it was scary and it got over-promoted," Caulfield said of the black plastic study. "The correction happens and the problem is, there's almost always less uptake of the ...

The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic ...

The study highlighted that flame retardants used in plastic electronics may, in some instances, be recycled into household items. "Companies continue to use toxic flame retardants in plastic ...

Liu and her colleagues chose 203 household products to test for flame-retardant contamination based on how often those items were made of black plastic — the most common color used in ...

This pollutes our environment, alters habitats, kills wildlife, and directly impacts the lives of millions of people globally ...

Irish households have been issued with a stark warning over the brand of washing up liquid they buy in 2025. The vast ...