• freebee@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Don’t heat food in plastic in the microwave. Put in the effort to put it in glass or a plate or so, then heat.

    Don’t store hot leftovers in plastic.

    Don’t buy and drink plastic bottled water.

    If you can in the stores in general chose between food and drinks packaged in glass or cardboard vs anything else: chances are glass or cardboard packaging is the healthier choice. Aluminum cans should still be okayish too, tho they possibly layered it with plastic inside too depending on the pH of the contents to slow down reactions between can and product.

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      1 year ago

      There is no living creature and no source of water without microplastics in it. Newborns have it in their blood and ground water has concentrations of it.

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        1 year ago

        yes, that is correct. I never said it would bring your intake to zero. But those appear to be big ways of microplastic intake we can control: food+packaging and food+heat. Harder to control the air you breathe in the city…

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          Oh i know you weren’t looking for zero, but reduction and end-user changes won’t fix the issue any more than a bandage on a leaking tire in a flood. It’s just like other pollution issues, it has to be cut off or regulated at the source.

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        1 year ago

        Is it really rated for micro plastics? Or is it rated for chemical leeching?

        Seems you can easily accidentally scrape off micro pieces of plastic from any container I assume is intended for reuse or food storage.