The US Environmental Protection Agency is reexamining the health effects of bisphenol A. A chemist explains why BPA is in plastics and why it’s hard to find a safe replacement.
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Due to increasing concerns over the health hazards posed by BPA, the Food and Drug Administration plans to reevaluate the safety of the controversial chemical for use in everyday products.
Plastic is made from oil and natural gas, which started out as fossilized plant and animal material. But buried deep underground for millions of years, those materials changed in important ways.
Biodegradable plastics have great potential to replace problematic plastics that don’t break down. But we, and the environment, need greater clarity on how to dispose of them.
There is abundant evidence of the involvement of endocrine disruptors in reproductive dysfunction in several species, including humans.
A global treaty on plastic pollution must incentivize a take-make-reuse waste management system and include quantitative targets based on geography-specific emissions.
Oil is used throughout the US economy. It goes into packaging, toys, clothing and especially the food we eat.
Over 170 countries have endorsed a resolution to negotiate a plastics treaty that’s much more precise than the Paris climate change agreement.
The Nigerian government must do more to combat increasing plastic pollution in the country.
Representatives of 175 countries voted to start developing a global treaty to reduce plastic waste. Treaties addressing mercury, long-range air pollution and ozone depletion offer some lessons.
The production and release of synthetic chemicals worldwide is destabilising the Earth system.
Using recycled plastic to wire planes could reduce their emissions while cutting down on waste from the 3-D printing industry.
Tossing something into your recycling bin that can’t be processed does more harm than good.
Each home testing kit contains around 10 grams of plastic.
An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the deluge.
In Canada, milk is available in jugs, cartons, bags and glass bottles. A new analysis reveals which type of container has the smallest environmental footprint — from container production to disposal.
In this episode, two Indigenous scientists running collaborative labs to address our climate crisis offer some ideas for environmental justice, including a redefinition of pollution.
We discovered that the 12 largest petrochemical companies announced 88 new projects between 2012 and 2019: new and expanded facilities that will likely operate for decades, ramping up carbon emissions.
Women and girls in low-income countries are disproportionately likely to be affected by the plastic waste that’s flooding our planet.
Researchers are uncovering how microplastic particles are carried in wind, rain and snow to remote regions of our planet.
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