What's more fun than creamy yogurt mixed in with some of your favorite candy bits?! However, I might waylay this breakfast treat for the time being. Danone, the parent company of YoCrunch, has voluntarily recalled some of its YoCrunch products due to the potential presence of plastic pieces inside the dome topper.

Overall, the material for storage for most of these items, especially the food, is glass. According to Vallo, glass is safe for most foods because it's nonreactive, stain resistant, and good for hot and cold things. Silicone bags are also a wonderful, eco-friendly option that you can wash and reuse.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics are spread across just the top layer of

Researchers found microplastics in nearly all Italian supermarket milk, fresh cheese, and ripened cheese samples, with ripened cheese containing the highest levels. The study highlights how dairy processing and packaging steps increase microplastic contamination in common foods.

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but researchers say that waxworms' unique ability to degrade plastic could make that process go faster — if the bugs don't die first.

“Around 2,000 waxworms can break down an entire polyethylene bag in as little as 24 hours, although we believe that co-supplementation with feeding stimulants like sugars can reduce the number of worms considerably,” said Cassone, a Professor of Insect Pest and Vector Biology in the Department of Biology at the university.

Plastics play a fundamental role in modern life, but their resistance to biodegradation makes them very difficult to dispose of. New research reveals how "plastivore" caterpillars can metabolically degrade plastics in a matter of days,

Injection molding and reusable plastic crates have saved the commercial lobster industry billions of dollars and improved conditions for its workforce.