Disposable plastic containers could be leaching dangerous chemicals into your takeaway food, potentially increasing your risk ...

Takeaway food containers, which many of us keep and re-use, tend to be made from this or another type of plastic called polyethylene – or both. But many other chemicals are added during ...

Testing has found microplastics in rice, tea, salt, sugar, beer, processed foods, milk, bottled water, and a range of seafood. We each ingest up to an estimated 3.8 million pieces of microplastic ...

Whether it is ordering food or buying groceries from a supermarket, food often arrives in plastic containers or wrapped in a plastic cling film. Despite several reports around it’s ill effects ...

There is no doubt that the takeaway food delivery sector needs to wrap its mind, and packaging, around a new system. A meal may take 30 minutes to arrive, but the plastic it includes may take up to ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food containers — equivalent ... “Given the substantial volume of waste takeaway containers, it’s potentially a great source for making fibres ...

have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the environmental impacts of disposable takeaway-food containers. They looked at aluminium, polystyrene (styrofoam) and polypropylene (clear ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

Food packaging can play a vital role in keeping ... or cheaper than their wrapped equivalents, so keep your old plastic takeaway containers at the ready.