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What's also alarming is that a bunch of plastic is now clearly labeled 'BPA Free', and people think "problem solved", while quite a few studies show that these
by EL_Loco 4y ago
What's also alarming is that a bunch of plastic is now clearly labeled 'BPA Free', and people think "problem solved", while quite a few studies show that these BPA free plastics have other, just as toxic, endocrine disruptors.
Some time ago I got curious about Nalgene's new BPA free plastic called Tritan. Some of the stuff I read wasn't too reassuring:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certichem-eastman-bpa-free-plastic-safe/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certi...
- colechristensen 4y agoAt this point I’m just doing everything to avoid plastic. Not completely but when i buy clothes they’re usually natural fibers, when i eat and drink it’s usually out of glass, ceramic, or steel.
- littledude 4y agoi remember reading in order to make any plastic soft enough to stretch and mold (otherwise it's too brittle) additives like BPA are required. BPA is just one of many different options. BPA free doesn't mean endocrine disrupting free.
- hinkley 4y agoSome of us switched to glass containers. Others switched to other plastics, or to plastics thinking they had switched to metal. Some metal containers are epoxy lined. Kleen Kanteen got into trouble because they were confidently wrong, launching a press release saying they had no BPA in their products, only to have to backpedal a week later. If memory serves, as part of their mea culpa they let people request replacements for their old products.