not the same compounds.
just ‘things sorta like something’
check apple juice organic arsenic and ‘other arsenic’ and how to kill your child faster.
I couldn’t wait to be an adult. I was dying to live on my own. So, adults back then smoked, drank alcohol, voted. I tried smoking for a month. I lit up in front of my uncle, a smoker all his life. He lectured me, called me a phony.
I realized he was right and never smoked again. His wife, my father’s twin, always smoked too. Out of the 5 siblings, only one never smoked; he lived to 98. The rest died around 70.
My mother eventually died of lung cancer.
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Well, no surprise that the industry is pushing back against the “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”
Gift link to article from NYT shedding light on documents leaked from an industry group.
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That article is more about the environmental impacts of plastics, and not their effects on humans (at least no directly).
Absolutely true that the article I linked is mainly about a concerted industry effort to reverse negative public sentiment about plastics.
Though the author does succinctly sum up why many folks aren’t happy about what plastic is doing to the planet and maybe to us humans. From the article:
“About half a billion tons of plastic are produced each year, more than double the amount from two decades ago, and much of that turns up on coastlines and river banks. Scientists have sounded the alarm on microplastics in the environment and in the human body, as well as the thousands of chemicals in plastic that can leach into food, water and the ecosystem.“
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Thank you for the link. Seems straightforward to me: corporate PR spin, gaslighting and lies. The casual TikTok videos are particularly insidious.
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What a story! ‘Lip, dip, paint, repeat’.
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Im not going to worry about my 30 year old black melitta filter that gets used only occasionally. I doubt that its manufacture involved the type of plastics that are at issue. But I now discard rather than reuse the black plastic containers received from restos and have tossed the made in china substitutes for my old european black nylon spatula. The original was a terrific product but the recent ones were inferior, melting and going out of shape. So it wasnt a hard choice, but finding a good silicon spatula that is thin, firm and and sharp tipped enough to do the job I need 0n cookie sheets and in nonstick skillets and is tough and utensils seem to have gotten bigger and blobbier like everything else (cars, appliances etc) in the interim.
I was already using silicon spatulas for Many of my cooking jobs. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F72TW3N/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Although, you can’t use metal on your non-stick skillet; I use a metal turner/spatula to get cookies off my metal cookie sheets. Its rather thick and heavy, I’ve had it for years – can’t remember where I got it, but its only job is to get the cookies off the cookie sheet.
I use the black plastic trays as trash receptacles on the counter while I’m cooking, etc., then toss them. It saves steps and/or washing a permanent receptacle. I also use them as organizers in drawers.
I use my metal spatula (and serving spoon) in my Corning ware casseroles. I could get rid of them, but I really like the feel.
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Your old one was likely made of “glass-filled” nylon. This kind of formulation allows for much thinner, harder utensils than can be made of other material and still last. Matfer’s Exoglass is a great example.
You can usually tell the difference by feel. Pressing a fingernail into the material, if it doesn’t give a little, it may be glass-filled.
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yes. its a shame that the euro made item was repllaced initally under the same brand with an inferior substitute made of meltable , deformable plastic. These are all thrown out now. The older spatulas were extremely hard and lasted for years - without deforming and without damaging delicate surfaces. I will check out the exoglass, they might fit in my stovetop canisters better than the (perfectly adequate) silicon spatulas.
This recommends use a metal or glass water bottle instead of re-using a water bottle intended for a single use. What about a plastic bottle intended for multiple uses?
I did not have the mental space to add this to my list of things to research, so I sent it to my husband who is even more critical and research-driven than me. He concluded after reviewing this source article that we should go ahead and replace the black plastic. I’m good with that and glad it didn’t need to be my decision. Most of our black nylon utensils were at least a decade old…the damage may already be done but there’s no reason to expose our kid more. The fact that many of you respected, logical members concluded you’re better off quitting black plastic is icing on the cake.
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I noticed that my brand new Oxo fat separator has a black plastic filter on top. It replaced a Swing Away that broke.
I don’t want to give it up. I only use it a couple of times a year.
This is exactly our mentality—we want to do whatever we can to ensure that Spring Onion’s future health is not affected by choices we’ve made.
We are hoping that the next generation of kids is going to solve the mess that we adults have made.
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