A disturbing exposé in The Atlantic magazine revealed this week that a common kitchen utensil could be potentially leaking ...

In 2018, Turner published one of the earliest papers positing that black plastic products were likely regularly being made ...

Since optical sensors at recycling facilities can't detect them, black plastics are largely rejected from household waste ...

Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth, published an insightful paper that revealed a specific item was ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house ... those household items because of mismanaged e-waste recycling, in which electronics are ...

Plastics make up around a quarter of the materials contained in electronic waste (e-waste). The proportion that is recycled ...

Australian researchers have developed a new method for spotting plastic rubbish on our beaches and successfully field tested it on a remote stretch of coastline. The satellite imagery tool ...

One of the arguments against the city mandating the use of clear plastic garbage bags is that they cost more than opaque bags ...

With its landfills almost full, Middle Tennessee is facing a trash crisis, and leaders have yet to make a solid plan for the ...

Walking down the festive aisles of plastic skeletons, pumpkins and candy bowls instead remind me of their nonbiodegradable ...

While growing up in the city of Roseau, our generation of youngsters knew of five items called ‘kabouwé’. Firstly, the ...