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Yes, glass. The article talks about all plastics, but in reality is "all plastics that are transparent" like glass. So if you need to use plastic bottles, use
by Htsthbjig 12y ago
Yes, glass. The article talks about all plastics, but in reality is "all plastics that are transparent" like glass.
So if you need to use plastic bottles, use ugly polyethylene or polypropylene ones.
Those are white, like this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yasuo68/5970772804/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/yasuo68/5970772804/
Polyethylene manufacturing is as simple as it could be, they don't need the crazy additives PET needs.
But those are so ugly companies don't want to use them. PET is beautiful and you could make it in colors like blue-transparent, or red-transparent so people and companies love them.
- Htsthbjig 12y agoYou can see what type of plastic you have just looking at the triangle mark with a number and some letters. Every plastic has a mark for recycling.
- markdown 12y agoNot true. #thirdworldproblems
- ScottBurson 12y agoThat's what I thought, but then I read somewhere that BPA has been found leaching from HDPE also, as well as PET. (Perhaps in much smaller quantities; it didn't say.) In brief poking around the Web I find a couple of sites that say that not only are H/LDPE and PP okay, so is PET. The only thing everyone agrees on is that polycarbonate has BPA (or an equally bad replacement). As far as the others go, I'm not really sure what to think at this point.