The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, Washington, DC; www.epa.gov) has released a draft report on alternatives to decaBDE-based (decabrom) flame retardants for use in polymers. The 812-page ...

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of ...

Jane Muncke, managing director of the Food Packaging Forum and last author on both papers, says the data don’t prove that the ...

So how worried should you be about the plastic cradling your next meal? Is it safe? The answer depends on multiple factors, ...

Microplastics have been found throughout the human body. We compiled some resources so you can better understand how ...

The chilling story of a would-be plane disaster: the author was 30,000 feet in the air and a nearby seat caught on fire!

Relevant central departments started soliciting public opinions on the newly revised "Electric Bicycle Safety Technical ...

Dow Chemical (Midland, Michigan / USA; www.dow.com) has licensed its newly developed high molecular weight brominated polymeric flame retardant (Polymeric FR) technology to Chemtura (Middlebury, ...

One of the key updates is the enhancement of fire-retardant features of e-bikes. The revised standards called for stricter ...

The Antimony market is driven by rising demand in the flame retardant, battery, and electronics industries. Increased industrial applications, particularly in alloys and lead-acid batteries, also ...