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Aren’t the lids typically plastic though?
by jolux 3y ago
Aren’t the lids typically plastic though?
- Night_Thastus 3y agoYes, but the vast majority of the container being glass still has advantages. For example, whenever heating it, you'd remove the lid and only be heating the glass.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoActually, on at least some of the range, Ikea advertise that the lid can be used as a splash guard in both microwave and conventional ovens (at least on my local Ikea website that's what it says), and has photos of the whole kaboodle in the oven: https://www.ikea.com/hu/hu/images/products/ikea-365-eteltarolo-tetovel-negyzet-al-ueveg-muanyag__0896940_pe695015_s5.jpg?f=xl https://www.ikea.com/hu/hu/images/products/ikea-365-eteltaro...
- giantg2 3y agoYeah. At least the food usually isn't in contact with the lid though.
- bilekas 3y agoI would have assumed (probably incorrectly) that the 'seal' which would come in contact with the glass & liquids would be a type of silicone lid, while it could be considered a type of plastic, if its a good food grade lid, I would imagine it's a bit better ? Ironically though silicone is much harder to recycle though.
- actionfromafar 3y agoU don’t recycle plastic, you burn it in a furnace. Spread the word.
- digging 3y agoNot sure if you're serious or not, but plastic should not actually be put in the recycling bin. It almost never gets recycled, and if it does, it degrades quickly and becomes more toxic after recycling. Plastic is garbage. If you live in a place that burns garbage for energy, that's the best fate for it.
- balaji1 3y agoBurning seems to be the only good idea over long-term. But someone on HN explained that there are some toxic byproducts to burning plastic. Dioxins for one. So we need some way to capture those waste and store it along with the nuclear waste lol.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThere are such capture devices and they are already in use to burn trash.
- infogulch 3y agoYou just need a catalytic converter.
- bilekas 3y agoEverytime I think I can do even something small to help, more clever people come along and ruin it! Does remind me of a cool tech about plasma arc recycling. https://www.explainthatstuff.com/plasma-arc-recycling.html https://www.explainthatstuff.com/plasma-arc-recycling.html It can basically recycle anything into energy from what I briefly read.
- jolux 3y agoThe lid is often thermoplastic of some sort, sometimes with a rubber gasket and sometimes without.
- George83728 3y agoYou can buy glass bowls with glass lids.