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Microwaved plastic is obviously something to avoid I agree but what I would like to know is what happens on plastic plates in washing machine?
by renox 3y ago
Microwaved plastic is obviously something to avoid I agree but what I would like to know is what happens on plastic plates in washing machine?
- avidphantasm 3y agoGood question. The only plastic dishes we have are the lids to our glass leftover containers. I always wash these by hand as it seems to me that the extreme heat of the dishwasher degrades the plastic (and probably causes god knows what to leach out of the plastic) and causes the lids to crack (kind of like plastic left out in UV light) and to fail seemingly sooner than they otherwise would.
- gumby 3y agoWell they will shed tons of microplastics and the placticisers will gradually leach out due to heat and the harsh dishwasher soap. That eventually destroys your plastic stuff, but the stuff shed goes down the drain and becomes someone else's problem (except you'll get some back when you eat fish, for example). The same thing happens with your clothes, which these days include a lot of plastic fabric, buttons, etc.