If you're trying to reduce your plastic consumption, start in your kitchen. These eco-friendly kitchen item swaps make for ...

(CNN) - Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be ...

An alarming study that had Americans tossing out their black plastic kitchen utensils, toys and to-go packages earlier this month overstated the concern, the researchers admit. But they still say ...

Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil ...

It's a plastic world out there. About 460 million metric tons of the material are made each year, according to the United Nations, and some scientists are growing increasingly worried that ...

A new study found that black-colored plastic kitchen utensils and takeout containers, among other items, may contain cancer-causing chemicals. The study, published Tuesday in the scientific journal ...

We all know how pervasive microplastics are and — though the exact effects are still being studied — that they’re bad for us and the planet. It’s a topic that’s increasingly on everyone’s minds. There ...