For Emily Cipryk, the decision to spend nearly $16,000 on plastic surgery came easy — and early. At 28, the entrepreneurial ...

Three Johnston school board candidates were reprimanded for violating Iowa campaign law by placing signs on corporate property. The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board described the candidates' ...

The USDA & FDA have declared wood and nonporous surfaces (like plastic, marble, and glass) safe for food preparation. Plastic cutting boards wear with daily use and should be replaced when they ...

You likely use a cutting board every single day. It’s an essential kitchen tool that plays a much larger role in your health than you have probably realized. Since recent studies indicate that using a ...

A new mouse study tested what happens when food is prepared on plastic cutting boards and the resulting microplastics end up in the diet. The team chopped on polyethylene and polypropylene boards, ...

Recent concerns highlight plastic cutting boards as a health risk, since they shed microplastics every time they're used. Your plastic chopping boards are potentially a large source of microplastics ...

The court entered judgment today on this in Schmidt v. Falcon School Dist. 49; here's an excerpt from the Mar. 21, 2025 opinion by Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell (D. Colo.) explaining the ...

It’s only $16. Graybeal prefers bamboo boards because “the material is better for the environment,” especially since it’s an abundant resource. In the kitchen, bamboo boards are “gentler on knives,” ...

Everyone has one: a scratched, stained plastic cutting board that’s been in your kitchen for years. Despite how many times you say to yourself, “I should get a new one,” you never do — but now, it’s ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - On Thursday, Governor Tina Kotek signed a new law banning all plastic bags at checkouts in restaurants, grocery stores, and retail shops starting January 7 of 2027. While Oregon ...

Material Kitchen’s reBoard, made from recycled plastic and renewable sugarcane, was one of its first products, launched about a year after the company started in 2019. It was also the item that — at ...