States ban plastic bags, PFAS chemicals, and foam containers to cut waste and improve recycling across multiple industries ...
Thousands of chemicals used in food packaging and food production are leaching into food itself. “It’s [from] your soda can, your plastic cooking utensils, your nonstick frying pan, the cardboard box ...
Approximately 60% of all plastics produced worldwide are used for food packaging (1). That means that of the 380 million metric tons of plastics produced in 2015, 228 million metric tons were food ...
Recent scientific investigations have uncovered disturbing evidence linking common food packaging materials to increased breast cancer risk, prompting renewed scrutiny of everyday storage containers.
In 1938, a 27-year-old chemist named Roy Plunkett stumbled across a new type of chemical, one with a bond so strong it would end up sticking around long after he died—in fact, almost forever. Today, ...