Dr. Swan's message is clear. For better health, people should stop heating food in plastic containers. Even if a product says "microwave safe," it is not worth the risk. Also read ...

Stein's Danforth store also offers cleaning products. She encourages customers to hold on to "the old toilet cleaner container" and refill it.

Tupperware previously announced that as of March 2010, it had stopped using materials containing BPA in its products in the U.S., helping “BPA-free” become a major trend and, eventually, the ...

Out of 20,000 audited pieces over the past two years, there were 427 straws, 11 six-pack rings, 115 plastic bags, 145 pieces of cutlery and 77 takeout containers.

For both kinds of fluids and polypropylene containers, the most microplastics and nanoplastics—up to 4.2 million and 1.2 billion particles per square centimeter of plastic, respectively—were ...

It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned just how much microplastics can affect your body — and not to mention the ...

Food container features Shape Many plastic containers are designed for specific foods: long, tall containers for storing spaghetti; square, shallow containers for sandwiches; and large, deep ...

Microwaving the containers accelerated the process by an alarming magnitude: Within three minutes, some containers released as many as 4.22 million microplastics (particles smaller than 5 ...

Your soda bottle. Your Tupperware container. But plastic waste goes far beyond bottles and bags. Each year we create roughly 440 million tons of it — equivalent to about 15,000 Statues of Liberty.

1. You can’t get rid of stains Stained plastic food container (Image credit: Shutterstock) Whether it’s your leftover pasta sauce or curries, there’s no escaping unsightly stains.