Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue. Rudkin-Wilson wants to "change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a ...

New research finds that people are inhaling thousands of particles of plastic that "enter deep into our respiratory system" Humans inhale nearly 70,000 pieces of plastic a day — and they’re coming ...

A study published this week delves into the mystery of how the plastic objects we interact with daily shed tiny particles that creep into our bodies, brains, and guts. While the scientific focus has ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Judith, can you take us through your kitchen and tell us what you did, since you’re so concerned about plastic? JUDITH ENCK: Sure. The kitchen ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

Plastic rarely feels like history. It’s the material of lunchboxes, toys, telephones, and kitchen containers that people assumed would eventually be thrown away. Yet museums around the world now ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The concentration of microplastics and nanoplastics inside our homes is “higher than previously thought,” according to a study ...