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In general there is nothing wrong with long-life plastic products. Plastic is a really useful and important material when used appropriately! It's the insane a
by Reason077 4y ago
In general there is nothing wrong with long-life plastic products. Plastic is a really useful and important material when used appropriately!
It's the insane amount waste and environmental pollution that single-use plastic generates that is the problem.
- jraby3 4y agoExactly. What I always tell vendors when I get a strange look after refusing their plastic bag is that we use it for 5 minutes but it stays in the environment for 1000 years.
- bluGill 4y agoThey make plastics that biodegrade in a few years. Supposedly even in a landfill they degrade (I've seen this debated, I'm not qualified to figure out who is right). However they are more expensive and so rarely used except when someone wants to make a point about being green.
- citrin_ru 4y agoNothing wrong unless it is used to store food or water and contains some BPA-like compound (AFAIK it includes most plastic produces nowadays even so called BPA-free).
- guelo 4y agoThe BPA replacements are probably just as toxic as BPA but it will take 20 years of science to prove it conclusively enough to get them banned.
- dublin 4y ago^^^^THIS!^^^^ There is early evidence that most BPA and pthlalate replacements may be considerably worse for you than the things they are replacing. (At least, worse in the sense that they are possibly more dangerous as endocrine disruptors and hormone mimics, and also possibly harder to remove from the body...) Best choice is to insist on glass packaging wherever you can. It's inert and infinitely recyclable.