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Do you drink out of a metal water bottle, drink juice or milk, or eat anything out of a can or carton? If so it’s lined with plastics.
by wil421 3y ago
Do you drink out of a metal water bottle, drink juice or milk, or eat anything out of a can or carton? If so it’s lined with plastics.
- m463 3y agoI think that is too broad, plastics does not mean forever chemicals. But yeah, they are in unexpected places. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dangerous-pfas-chemicals-are-in-your-food-packaging-a3786252074/ https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan... Probably most people know about non-stick coatings in the kitchen. Most of them have forever chemicals. And wow, their marketing word choices are almost like privacy policies in their obfuscation.
- hedora 3y agoModern paper straws are apparently extremely bad. Some stainless steel bottles are unlined. Sadly, the lined ones don’t have to include a warning label. Also, our local Whole Foods has a warning sign in the produce aisle saying that some of their fruit is coated in a plastic “food wax”. There aren’t labelling or provenance laws, so not even Amazon can source untainted produce at scale. They recommend peeling everything, since no wax removal soaps reliably remove the plastic.
- spookybones 3y agoPaper straws? Not plastic?
- more_corn 3y agoIn order to make a paper straw waterproof we line it with a hydrophobic chemical mixture. It’s probably really bad for you but more research is required.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoEvery single paper straw I have encountered has been anything but waterproof.
- more_corn 3y agoPerhaps you’re conflating BPA (plasticizer) which is a suspected endocrine disruptor, and PFAs (forever chemicals) which often show up in fire retardants and waterproofing. Those two things are different.