Are we really all exposed to many hazardous chemicals that come off the packaging our food travels in? What can we do to ...

Study finds over half of plastic food packaging is replaceable, urging policy and industry shifts toward sustainable grocery ...

Praised for its durability, adaptability, and recyclability, aluminium foil safeguards products while advancing ...

some of which can be harmful. This is also true for plastic food packaging. "We found as many as 9,936 different chemicals in a single plastic product used as food packaging," said Martin Wagner ...

There's no doubt in anyone's mind that plastic pollution is a problem. As the United Nations noted, "46% of plastic waste is landfilled, while 22% is mismanaged and becomes litter. Unlike other ...

Major retailers are failing to protect consumers from hazardous chemicals and plastics in the products they sell, according ...

And they seem to lurk everywhere: in pesticides, cosmetics, and especially plastic packaging ... what's really going on and what to do about it. Bad news is, Blumberg confirmed that, yep, we ...

“Black plastics are more likely to contain unregulated amounts of toxic chemicals. Including heavy metals and flame retardants which can leach into food and pose a hazard to human health,” the site ...

To create new forms of food packaging ... and later less toxic polyethylene, creating Saran Wrap. While cellophane was compostable, the oil-based films—and the rigid plastic containers that ...

While all of these can be harmful for health if used extensively, the rampant use of plastic bags that have not been made for food packaging raises the biggest concerns. Food at high temperatures (for ...

Additionally, the research found that the UK is the "most reliant on plastic packaging, with 70% of all food and drink items on British shelves containing plastic," compared to Spain, which came ...

It also included a "store inventory analysis," which showed the "proportion of a range of food and drink items packaged in plastic across different areas of the store. It then brought together the ...