A mother used arch-shaped stencils to draw perfect matching eyebrows. Teresa Pantano, 52, applies makeup every morning, and her daughter Shiela said the secret to her super-symmetrical brows is the ...

WE refer to your recent report “Malacca bans plastic bags” (The Star, Dec 30). Plastic bags and polystyrene (PS) containers should be recycled instead of being banned. Cancel anytime.

Now, a study published in Chemosphere, which was led by researchers at Toxic-Free Future and the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment at Vrije Universiteit, gives even more reason to ...

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That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the ...

We’ve updated the section “What’s up with black plastic?” to include guidance concerning coffee makers. It’s probably time to ditch your black plastic utensils. Research suggests that ...

The moment of truth is almost upon us. In just ten days, the world will gather in Busan, Republic of Korea, to begin the final round of negotiations on a legally binding instrument to end plastic ...

Mahathir’s letter to Thatcher is one of hundreds of unpublished diplomatic documents I have seen in visits to the UK National Archives since then. My full analysis of this letter, and Thatcher ...

Meanwhile, plastic pollution could nearly double, reaching 121 million metric tons, according to the study. In such a business-as-usual scenario, the world would amass sufficient waste between ...