How to avoid it: The study found that washing your rice can reduce plastic contamination by 20% to 40%, though it's worth noting that the study used filtered water for rinsing. When you top off ...

That convenient plastic water bottle in your hand might be doing more harm than good. While grabbing a pre-filled bottle seems like an easy way to stay hydrated, a growing body of evidence suggests ...

While studies into their impact on human health are ongoing, it’s fair to want to do what you can to avoid these tiny plastics. That’s just harder than it sounds. “Microplastics are ...

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The teeny tiny pieces of plastic have been found in everything ... microplastics are now so pervasive that they’re nearly impossible to avoid. If you’re concerned about the health effects ...

A recent study found bottled water contains far more pieces of plastic — tiny bits known as microplastics and even more minuscule nanoplastics — than previously estimated. The findings raise ...

Avoid plastic cookware "When you see things like plastic spatulas melting and bubbling, there's little pieces of plastic coming off them," she said. Where possible, Couceiro cooks with metal or ...

So before hitting that one-click shop button or rushing to grab the latest deal, here are three ways to avoid plastics when shopping for fashion and beauty this holiday season and beyond.

Some tea bags are better than others if you want to avoid ingesting plastic. The tea bags studied by the Barcelona scientists contained polypropylene, cellulose and nylon, but there are many tea ...

Identify areas where you can swap plastics for something else or find workarounds to avoid them. If you enjoy a cup of coffee on the go, for example, ask the barista to fill your reusable cup or ...

In a 24-hour experiment, one journalist tried to go plastic free. To avoid sitting on plastic, the writer brought a wooden chair to the New York City subway.Credit...Jonah Rosenberg for The New ...