Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Microwaving plastic containers can release millions of ...

My grandma was a big saver. She grew up during the Great Depression, so holding on to things made sense. She had a drawer full of plastic utensils and paper-wrapped straws, and another one with ...

Reusing plastic takeout containers seems like an easy, eco-friendly way to cut down on waste, but beneath the good intention is a question that keeps swirling: What happens when that plastic is reused ...

How many times have you picked up an empty food container and tossed it in the recycling bin without a second thought? Since they seem like trash, it's what most people do. Yet, you could also ...

Before you reheat tonight’s leftovers, it helps to know what actually matters when it comes to plastic food containers, especially as questions about microplastics continue to grow. Reusing plastic ...

A food safety expert weighs in. My grandma was a big saver. She grew up during the Great Depression, so holding on to things made sense. She had a drawer full of plastic utensils and paper-wrapped ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food containers — equivalent in weight to half a million cars — is generated every year in China, according to Yufei Qin, head of the plastic recycling ...

FirmaPak, a rapidly growing manufacturer of blow-molded packaging solutions, announced February 3 the acquisition of Easy Plastic Containers Corp., a Canadian blow molder of plastic bottles across ...

I don’t even need to open my kitchen cabinet right now to see that dozens of my plastic food storage containers are stained every color of the rainbow: spaghetti red, curry yellow, and even a lovely ...

I consulted a public health professor and a toxicologist to understand how microplastics enter food and whether microwaving poses any special risks. Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based ...

Easy Plastics was started by the late George Seretis and the late Chris Grigoriadis and is managed today by Nick Seretis, Andy Seretis, Geena Grigoriadis and Nick Vayenas Shore Capital Partners has ...

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