There’s new research out this week that phthalates, chemicals found in plastic, may have contributed to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease across the world. Here & Now ‘s Robin Young ...

Phthalates, which are found in cosmetics, food packaging and other common household plastics, are linked to early death from ...

This style of thread is not commonly used in metal fasteners because it requires machining the threads, which is much more costly than the rolling procedure described above. However, plastic threads ...