A new investigation suggests that black plastic utensils, like spatulas, may leach harmful flame retardants into food during ...

Exposure to organophosphate esters (OPEs)—chemicals found in everyday products that use plastics and flame retardants—during ...

TV and computer casings, like the majority of the world’s plastic waste, tend to be recycled in informal waste economies with ...

Study reveals a complex link between pregnancy exposure to common chemicals and childhood obesity, researchers say.

A recent study published in Chemosphere revealed that black plastic cooking utensils are made with a potentially toxic ...

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 ...

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

There's also that black plastic sushi tray. According to the findings, it contained 11,900 parts per million of the flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether, or decaBDE, which is strongly ...

Hull UK based Floreon has won the US Plastics Industry Association’s ‘innovation in bioplastics’ award for its plant-based, flame retardant, halogen-free polymer. Called Therma-Tech is a PLA ...

There is no safe level of flame retardant consumption, and the findings point to the uncertainty of plastic recycling as well as the overwhelming use of plastic in daily life. A study published in ...