A 2024 study by the French NGO Agir pour l’Environnement found that repeatedly opening and closing plastic soda bottles significantly increased the number of microplastic particles in the beverages.

Drinking from plastic bottles may be poisonous to your health — and drinking straight from the tap might save your life. A recent study published in the journal Microplastics found that drinking from ...

Is it true that you should not drink from plastic water bottles left in a hot car? Microplastics — plastic particles smaller than five millimeters — are in our food, water, clothing, personal care ...

DAVIS, Calif. — We’re all inadvertently dining on tens of thousands of plastic particles annually. Now, researchers have figured out what all that plastic might be doing inside your body. A new study ...

New research finds that people are inhaling thousands of particles of plastic that "enter deep into our respiratory system" Getty Images Humans inhale nearly 70,000 pieces of plastic a day — and ...

When you think about takeout, your biggest concerns might be how greasy the food is or whether you remembered to ask for extra napkins. But new research suggests there may be more to consider than ...

“How much plastic will you have for dinner, sir? And you, ma’am?” While that may seem like a line from a satirical skit on Saturday Night Live, research is showing it’s much too close to reality. Even ...

Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.

Plastic is everywhere, including in our brains. According to a preprint in the National Library of Medicine, samples from human brains collected in 2024 contain 50% more plastic than samples collected ...