Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot ...

Discover some creative ways to use Flex Seal around the house. If you’re a homeowner who likes to tackle repair projects yourself, you’re likely familiar with the Flex Seal Family of Products. A ...

In the most extreme case, the researchers estimated the brain was 0.48% plastic, meaning the particles added up to a couple ...

The researchers also suggest that the plastic chemical exposure itself may lead to heart muscle damage, along with ...

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

(And why are microplastics in our cleaning products anyway?) ...

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Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

After thousands of homes and businesses burned in the Los Angeles fires, public health doctors are warning about the toxic ...

Lithium-ion batteries have an internal chemistry that leads to major fires and toxic pollutants when they combust. What role ...