Jay Foreman, the CEO of Basic Fun, a Florida-based toy company whose brands include Tonka, Lite-Brite, and Care Bears, was ...

Polymer chemists and a toxicologist told me that polypropylene is the best plastic for non-toxic food storage. Here are the ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

Plastic is everywhere—even in the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. CR’s recent tests of nearly 100 foods found two types of chemicals used in plastic, bisphenols and phthalates, in a wide ...