Certain plastics don’t like heat or long-term use.

Polypropylene is a plastic that’s used in many products, including food storage containers. You can recognize it as the number 5 surrounded by a triangle on the bottom. It’s generally considered one ...

Dillon is an Update Writer at Food & Wine, where he spends most of his time ensuring product recommendations are fresh and relevant. He's performed testing on kitchenware like bundt pans and cookware ...

Plastic has many uses in our everyday lives. You may think that plastic is safe for your health because of its widespread availability. However, some kinds are not. With many different plastic ...

B!Pod, a business unit of Milan, Italy-based Saes Getters, has selected SABIC’s ocean-bound plastic- (OBP-) based polypropylene (PP) resin from global chemicals company SABIC as the material for their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wachirawit Iemlerkchai via Getty Images When it comes to low-cost kitchen items that can stand the test of time, plastic food ...

I used plastic food containers for most of my life — they’re affordable and accessible at most of the grocery stores I frequent. But, in recent years I’ve learned more about the potential dangers ...

Experiments showed that microwaving plastic baby food containers can release huge numbers of plastic particles -- in some cases, more than 2 billion nanoplastics and 4 million microplastics for every ...