Scientists have found plastic fragments can shed off cutting boards, takeout containers and even laminated paper cups with each use.

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Here’s an easy-to-use guide to recycling in the Sacramento area: Around the world, the triangle-shaped symbol found on recyclable items is called the “chasing arrows,” and includes corresponding ...

but passes high-wavelength light (infrared), the scientists carefully made pores as small as 30 nm—about 1,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair—into the plastic as well as stretching ...

Some semi-synthetic, plant-derived bedding like bamboo and lyocell also do the trick because of their moisture-wicking and airy properties. If you're a hot sleeper and the sheets on your bed don ...

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste ... catalytic processes that do not require solvents.

Although some dislike the crumply sound percale sheets make, I don’t mind it, and neither do many others. In an odd way, it adds to the “fresh” feeling these naturally cooling sheets have.