Plastics News senior reporter Frank Esposito shares highlights from a whirlwind three-week work trip through Indiana, Philadelphia and San Diego.

Microplastics have been found in numerous organ systems and even in the human brain. It's impossible to avoid them altogether, but you can cut back, researchers say.

4. Scrape the polenta into the lined baking pan, pressing it into all four corners and smoothing the top with a spatula. Cool completely. Press a piece of plastic wrap directly onto the surface of the ...

Scientists have made metal sheets that are just a few atoms thick. Using their new method, researchers developed 2D sheets of ...

Some of those bags measured as thin as 6 microns. Thin plastic bags, often used just once, can take thousands of years to decompose, turning into harmful microplastics that threaten wildlife and ...

During inspections conducted across 251 hotels in Karnataka, officials found that 52 establishments were using plastic sheets in the steaming process of idlis. Thin plastic sheets, especially ...

The Karnataka Health Department has banned the use of plastic sheets for steaming idlis as plastic use in food preparation is a serious public health hazard. “Plastic in food preparation is a ...

According to him, polythene, especially the thin sheets, are carcinogenic and the ... that recently the hotels have started using plastic. So our officers went to various spots and conducted ...

The move follows inspections by the Food Safety Department, which revealed that 51 out of 251 hotels sampled were using thin plastic sheets in the idli preparation process—a practice deemed a serious ...

Instead, use a piece of cardboard (or other thin, impermeable material, like a plastic sheet). Insert the sheet into the gap between the wall or trim and the floor, paint that section with wild ...

On a nanoscale, it consists of stacks of atomically thin sheets, like a tiny stack of cards. The research team has been working with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for years. These are a new ...

The research, published in Cell Reports Physical Science, focuses on how thin, flexible sheets -- patterned and selectively bonded to form internal fluidic networks -- respond to pressure changes ...