Some things, like the cardboard box your online purchase arrived in, are both obviously recyclable and easy to dispose of mindfully. Others, not so much. Take rubber gloves, for example. They're not ...

Every year, over 100 billion nitrile rubber gloves are produced. They are made from synthetic polymers—a material chemically related to plastic and derived from crude oil. The vast majority is used in ...

One Michigan lawmaker thinks so. A bill introduced this week by state Rep. Larry Inman, R-Traverse City, would prohibit restaurants from using latex gloves unless a notice is prominently displayed.

Rubber gloves, including nitrile and latex, have been around for just over a hundred years. Over that period of time, the applications for protection have grown from surgical and medical uses to ...

Malaysian firm Meditech Gloves will begin production of natural gloves that can biodegrade 100 times faster than synthetic, petroleum-based options KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – ...