Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black-colored plastics used in electronics are leaching flame retardants into kitchen utensils, toys and food containers, ...

UPDATE @ 1:15 p.m. (Dec. 18): Scientists have issued a correction on this study. Researchers behind the viral study on potential toxins in common black kitchen ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...

The study found that plastics with bright colors degrade more quickly into microplastics compared to plain-colored plastics. Microplastics, or tiny plastic particles, present serious environmental and ...

Researchers have shown that a common plastic additive called carbon black can depolymerize polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), two of the least recycled plastics in the planet’s waste stream It ...

Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be leaching from ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...