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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Oregon law pushing restaurants to use eco-friendly takeout containers is now in effect. Approved by the Oregon Senate and House in 2023, Senate Bill 543 was officially ...

Starting Wednesday, January 1, 2025, food vendors and restaurants in Oregon will be required to stop using plastic foam takeout containers due to a law passed by the Oregon legislature in 2023.

The thought that wooden cutting boards hold bacteria longer may not be true—in fact, the plastic cutting board in your kitchen could be doing more harm than good, an expert told Newsweek.

Sherri "Sam" Mason, a sustainability expert at Penn State Behrend, told CNN: "All of those chemicals are used in the manufacturing of plastic, so if plastic makes its way into us, it's carrying ...

After years of intermittent crackdowns against plastic use, the issue has only grown more pervasive, with single-use plastics becoming entrenched in daily life. Despite multiple attempts by the ...

Are you tired of never being able to find the right lid for the plastic ... the CDs used to go. Be careful not to push smaller lids too far back so you can easily remove them. Don't let the space on ...

Stephanie Widmer explains potential hazards of single-use plastic. Safety concerns ... leach into your food when single-use containers -- the kinds used for takeout -- are re-heated in a microwave ...

Safety concerns have loomed over microplastics, be it from your cutting board while prepping food to cook at home or items such as water bottles and takeout food containers ... we are committed to ...

This new study focuses on the significant release of MNPLs from commercially available tea bags when used to prepare an infusion ... The study revealed that mucus-producing intestinal cells absorbed ...