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Jan 4, 2024 · CR tested popular fast foods and supermarket staples for some of the chemicals used to make plastic, which can be harmful to your health. Here's what we found—and how to stay safer.
Feb 28, 2022 · Consumer Reports reviews silicone food storage bags from AISHN, Stasher, W&P, Xomoo, and Zip Top to see which ones are worth it.
Dec 13, 2016 · Plastic bags kill wildlife, clog waterways and pack landfills. Discarded bags can spread malaria if they collect rainwater, offering mosquitos a casual breeding ground. In recent years, local and national governments have begun phasing out or banning lightweight plastic shopping bags.
Oct 2, 2019 · Most of the plastics that consumers encounter in daily life—including plastic wrap, bath mats, yogurt containers, and coffee cup lids—contain potentially toxic chemicals, according to a new...
Mar 1, 2022 · Plastic bags show lower environmental impacts in most of the evaluated scenarios (six out of nine studies that included HDPE) than other materials, such as paper, cotton or other polymers (bio-based or oxo-degradable), when they are used only once (Evans, 2013). An average relative climate change impact could be calculated as the average value ...
- Iván Darío López Gómez, Alejandro Serna Escobar
- 2021
Mar 23, 2023 · If you’re looking for more single-use swap outs, try trading plastic baggies for reusable snack bags, plastic wrap for DIY beeswax wraps and plastic produce bags for reusable produce bags.
Dec 30, 2021 · Almost all respondents (95%) are in favor of legislation reducing unlimited access to plastic bags (43% support both a bag fee or ban; 41% support only a bag ban; 11% support only a bag fee). Five percent of respondents do not support legislation reducing the access to plastic bags in stores.
