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We need a whitelist of chemicals endorsed for food, drink, and health/beauty. Packaging ingredients need to be listed as well as food ingredients. As an indiv
by ArkanExplorer 6y ago
We need a whitelist of chemicals endorsed for food, drink, and health/beauty.
Packaging ingredients need to be listed as well as food ingredients.
As an individual consumer: contact politicians. The only solution to this is regulatory.
- hedora 6y agoAlso, this whitelist can include exactly one (or two) recyclable plastics.
- donavanm 6y agoDon’t focus on the type of plastic or polymer too much. Virgin plastics themselves arent too reactive/biologically active. It’s the additives, plasticizers, and environmental/industrial chemicals they pick up that react/interfere with organisms. And those are largely unregulated and definitely opaque to any end consumer. Not all PET is equal. Source: casual interest, and a partner who’s a biologist working on a chem PhD specifically around measuring the effect of micro/nano plastics in marine organisms.
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- tzs 6y agoI'd like to also see ingredient lists include the date they were last modified.
- sjg007 6y agoYour local politician ain't gonna do shit all. This is a national movement more than anything.