HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The disposable face masks and gloves we use are creating new challenges when it comes to keeping our neighborhoods clean. In some cases, they end up as litter. We've ...

Wearing plastic gloves? Please throw them out after you're done. People around the world are taking precautions to keep germs at bay amid the coronavirus pandemic, like wearing disposable gloves or ...

Face masks and plastic gloves have become must-have items when people go out in public during the coronavirus pandemic, but after being used, some of that personal protective equipment is being dumped ...

Emerging from years in food-safety crisis mode, Chipotle Mexican Grill has good reason to make sure food handlers are using plastic gloves responsibly. But 95% of those gloves ended up in a landfill ...

Plastic gloves and face masks may help stop the spread of the new coronavirus, but they are easily disposed and are often ending up as litter in parking lots and along area roads. Plastic gloves and ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The best way to protect yourself against the growing ...

Every time you order a burrito, you probably don’t think much about the plastic gloves your tortilla-roller wears. But millions of these gloves end up in the trash every year, which has a serious ...

Dear Heloise: I read the letter from Leigh S. of Boise, Idaho, in which she relates her problem of getting sticky fingers when kneading dough. I have a better solution than using plastic bags. Use ...

As more people take precautions to protect themselves from COVID-19, another problem has emerged: littering. Single-use plastic gloves are strewn across Sacramento parking lots and streets. "It’s a ...

The summer of 1987 was Central New York's "Hepatitis Outbreak" summer. Thirty years later its effects are still being every time a person eats at a restaurant or buys a hot dog from a street vendor.