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It gives me the creeps every time I see someone heating up their lunch in an old plastic container. Old dairy containers with snap lids are very common. It must
by steve_adams_86 6y ago
It gives me the creeps every time I see someone heating up their lunch in an old plastic container. Old dairy containers with snap lids are very common. It must be leaching so much garbage into the food. I can’t tell if that’s phobia due to bad science or these people are actually gradually poisoning themselves.
- rurp 6y agoSame, though it seems hard to determine just how risky it is. I have drank water from thin plastic bottles that had been sitting out in the sun and elements for a quite a while. I don't know exactly how long, probably a year or two. The water was gross! I attribute it to the plastic breaking down and contaminating the water, but that's just a guess.
- wruza 6y agoI have the same concern about the new plastic everyday (food delivery sends these). It feels that old plastics only diffuse components into a food once, and then gradually less, but new ones do that again and again. Idk if that is true or a phobia too.
- Scoundreller 6y agoI believe that. Contact time is a thing. Kinda like how cars recommend a very short interval for the first oil change: because that’s when all the metal is flaking off. Once your engine is old, everything is smoothed out and there’s a lot less surface area.