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

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

Black plastic household items like kitchen utensils and takeout containers may contain toxic flame retardants.

If you're worried about microplastics, you should certainly not be scraping your hot cooking surfaces or slapping your food ...

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

There's also that black plastic sushi tray ... helping to conserve resources and reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste." But if you want to protect yourself from exposure just in ...

The exact amount of e-waste that ends up recycled into new ... contamination based on how often those items were made of black plastic — the most common color used in electronics — and whether ...

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 ...

The study showed an increase in plastic bag waste from 8 pounds a year in 2004 to 11 pounds a year in 2021. According to the California Public Interest Research Group, the new law is in concert ...

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...