A study conducted by Nationwide Children's Hospital researchers across the U.S. found that from 1990 through to 2010, an estimated 263,000 people under the age of 18 were treated in emergency ...

Image Credit: Istock The study found that the majority of injuries occurred as a result of using cotton tip applicators to clean the ears (73 per cent), playing with cotton tip applicators (10 per ...

But kids are thought to be at higher risk for them. ... “It turned out that, shockingly, the [fibers] from my cotton buds had managed to lodge themselves in my ear, ...

The ubiquity and usefulness of cotton buds doesn’t make up for the fact they’re terrible for the planet: Defra estimates that 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds are used in England every ...

Last Wednesday (May 22), the UK government made the decision to ban plastic cotton buds, straws, and stirrers, which will be brought into effect in April 2020. Despite this, it seems that brands ...