Adding flame ... [+] retardants to their plastic battery enclosures may not be help. It can also lead to health harm. If you’re reading this on a smartphone or laptop, you can thank lithium-ion ...

Recent research indicates that black plastic found in items like food containers, kitchen utensils, and toys often contains toxic flame-retardant chemicals. Flame retardant chemicals are used to make ...

Unfortunately, one common strategy may cause serious health harm and not work to slow or stop the fires. A new Viewpoint in Environmental Science & Technology explains that adding flame retardants to ...

German plastics processor Röchling (Mannheim; www.roechling.de) has introduced two flame-retardant plastics to meet the updated European rail vehicle standard EN 45545-2:2013 that came into force in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Fire retardant covers a backyard in Mandeville Canyon during the Palisades Fire, Jan. 11, 2025, in Los ...

Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...

Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles area have employed a bright red fire retardant to tamp the flames, leading to dramatic images of the material blanketing scores ...

When landfilled, BFRs can leach out from discarded electronics and if a recycling process involves heating plastic, that also can release the toxic compounds. A paper published by researchers at ...