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> Plastic is toxic, we all know this. There are thousands of plastics, and a blanket statement like this is simply false. We should be working to figure out wh
by atrus 3y ago
> Plastic is toxic, we all know this.
There are thousands of plastics, and a blanket statement like this is simply false. We should be working to figure out which plastics are toxic, and why. You're essentially looking at lead and coming to the conclusion that "Metal is toxic, we all know this."
- mint2 3y agoThat’s not a great comparison. If it was comparable to lead in terms of identifying toxicity, we wouldn’t be having this debate. So actually plastic is worse than lead in that it’s more insidious, some want to slowly kill things but it’s nearly impossible to tell which. If only it were like lead and upfront about it. So no, they are not saying “metal is toxic”. That is extending the analogy to another topic: identification