What to know about dangers of storing leftovers in plastic containers
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Experts warn that heating up plastic to-go containers could cook up a hidden danger with possible long-term effects.
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At this point, this stuff is impossible to avoid. The companies are never held accountable tho.
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and happy new year 🎈🎆🎊 my liberal friends across the globe 🌎
They probably have great lobbyists buddying up to the FDA.
Impossible? To avoid??? Hell no! Cook your own food!!! Use iron!
Line the container with parchment paper.. never reheat in plastic
@@AaaaBbbb-mp8wdWith lead contamination and poisons from China. Nothing is made in America anymore so everything is tainted.
I absolutely NEVER microwave anything in any plastic containers, not even defrosting. I only reheat in glass dishes.
Well aren't you fancy
That’s called being
You gonna live waaaaay longer than all the rest
I always do that😅
Or ceramic plate
We’ve known about this for YEARS. The problem is that our government threw away our health and safety for corporate profits
Yup.
Oh please. Robert Kennedy of the incoming Trump administration wants to overhaul this crap and you call him every name in the book. Save your fake outrage
Yes, this is not news.
RFK Jr. coming, you ain't seen nothing yet. He'll get rid of red #5, but other stuff will likely fly.
It will be extremely hard for the world to switch to all paper products. Unless you’re growing and making all your own food you still are getting micro plastics in your food. From peanut butter to chicken.
Leftovers in plastic container? Most food in stores are in plastic containers
And vacuum sealed touching every piece of food to the plastic in some cases.
This is true and that’s why there’s more research to do. However there’s studies already done that warn us of a chemical composition from the plastic when exposed to heat (dishwasher and microwave).
There's different levels of plastic
One time use one is thin others are thick for long term use which doesn't release microplastics unless you it for 3-4 years
leeching chemicals in food.
Do what you can, & what feels reasonable to you.
I reused yogurt containers for years, folks, but about 4 years ago I started reading the science & made the switch to glass food storage. Not expensive at all, unless you buy some fancy name brand.
I ditched the teflon 2 years ago, after saving up to get a cast iron frying pan. Again, very affordable unless you gotta have some high-end brand.
I've got an inexpensive filter on my water tap that eliminates lead & other metals. This year I'm buying stainless steel water jugs to replace the plastic ones I've been using to store my water in the fridge.
Food prices have got me doing more home-cooked meals too, which is better for my health. I cook enough for 2 or 3 days, which is why glass food storage became important.
Small affordable steps, over a few years, because I'm not waiting on the food industry to do the right thing.
You should get a test kit for that filtered water, I guarantee it'll still test positive for chlorine/chloramine, and flouride. No one should be drinking water with fluoride added to it
I’m using granite containers.
My kids HATE them and my wife thinks I’m an idiot.
They work and save the environment 👍
@ghostwalk2446 yeah my water filter company is still working on a add on for fluoride
@@ghostwalk2446wait what . Tell me more about it
@@amelie-db7guI guess it needs to be reverse osmosis
Literally everything can kill you now. The air, water, food etc
Correct because the world is more polluted now. The world was so different 100 years ago. It all adds up one by one to make us sick, the more we avoid pollutants the better.
Literally
There is already a great amount of plastic in all of us. Even in remote tribes. What we let corporations do to this beautiful planet and it's inhabitants is unspeakable. And they are still not held accountable because they run the world.
The fact that this isn’t an exaggeration is the crazy part. We can’t even drink rain water because of it’s forever chemicals
True even music too. Baby shark doo doo!...
Maybe 'more research should be done' BEFORE allowing these plastic storage containers on the market
They know the harm decades ago, but they don't care about people, only $$$
Agreeeee
Capitalism doesn't want your research or science. It only eats people and poops out money.
THANK YOU!!!!
Let's be honest plastic is in our food, water, and air. It's over for us
Yeah it's fucked. Cancer rates are gonna skyrocket I bet if something doesn't turn around
Yes it is,but why add more ?
This is what my ob-gyne told me. It’s everywhere.
Exercise and saunas. Sweating helps remove it from the body.
Literally. Sigh. What a world haha
Why weren’t they concerned when they first came out 20 years or more ago ??
Because studies take time and funding. Please notice, it has taken decades for politicians to pass bills against the most evident pollution - and still there are many whose only view of the future is to drill for oil everywhere. Plastic is made with oil.
Do you think that the companies that hid for so long their studies about climate change and lobby to dismantle regulations, we're open for the dangers of plastics to be known?
Probably because the scientists were employed by the plastic companies so conducted "research " that would profit the plastic company. Probably got a bonus for it too.
Some complained and where seen as looney toons
People knew, just not enough people knew about it, or the campaign or the product use/conveniece overshadowed. My parents knew and educated me, I avoid using plastic as much as possible
Vast right wing conspiracy to rule the world!
It’s the media. They are funded by corrupt donors.
We need non profit media and agriculture.
Trump/Musk baby!
1) do not reheat/cook food in plastic containers
2) store food in glass jars
3) avoid buying single use plastic items when you can
Old news but.
What if you only have 20 or so more years and then you die.
I’m 60 so I really don’t care.
You want me to put my chicken and empanadas in glass jars?
@@slyfox2022Pyrex and glass containers exist. Also a jar ain’t that bad.
@@slyfox2022😂😂😂😂
@@slyfox2022Is this a real question? ...I mean, not if you prefer plastic seasoning.
Don’t refill a water bottle because of microplastics? But it’s ok to drink the water that’s already inside it as long as it’s a freshly purchased one?
Definitely doesn’t sound like it’s also a way for them to sell more plastic products that will now definitely only be used once instead of replacing them with something safe.
Exactly
I have to agree that this makes little sense.
Jar bottles available
Metal cans with water are available
@@annaodessa2405 Aluminum cans, whether for soup or other liquids, actually have a (very) thin plastic lining inside to prevent leeching, corrosion and metallic tastes affecting the food. 😕
The government has known for years that drinking and eating from plastic was dangerous. No one publicly said a word.
Source(s)?
I said something.
Are you OK?
Go sleep it off buddy 👍
@@guybeingaguy Yeah, that’s what I thought.
@@GMBoehler why do you need a source?! This has been common knowledge for years. I heard about micro plastics probably close to a decade ago. If an average Joe soap like me knows about it then the government absolutely knows.
lol. If no one publicly said a word, how do you know they knew for years? Not saying you’re wrong (you’re probably right), but you’re making a definitive statement in your first sentence that is impossible to make if the second sentence is true.
why is it that damn near every blender on the market is now made of plastic? why can’t i find a GLASS blender?!?
Thank you! I have been asking myself this same question for years now.
Does bpa free jar help?
China and Biden!
Out to rule the world!
Probably cause glass breaks and it can cause injury. Too heavy and risky to ship as a product. They wanna probably play it safe
I see people in different countries like India they have stainless steel blenders there
You can’t really escape microplastics, all you can do is reduce exposure
They were talking about the dangers of reheating in plastic back in the late 80s. People don't listen.
They came out with plastic products claiming to be microwave safe as well, though. Can't blame folk for getting confused really
Go back to everything being glass. Totally recyclable and infinitely recyclable.
You okay with absorbing the cost?
@@coolgirl614 in this situation I would say yes. Don't get me wrong, I am not a environmentalist nutjob, to me it just makes sense.
@@mysterymayhem7020That's fair
It's kinda funny that they featured a statement from the Plastics Industry Association as if that company gave even a grain of sand amount of care for human life. After all the evidence we've seen of the effects of plastic on humanity and the earth as a whole, it's laughable and a sad, cruel joke that anyone would even bother paying them any mind.
Now you’re going to come out with this $hit! After the entire planet is damn near plastic?
So what about Mayo, Ketchup, Mustard, Spices, prescription drugs, water bottles, zip lock bags, plastic wrap, drinking cups, baby bottles, sippy cups, take out food, take out utensils, soda bottles, juice bottles, dishes, cups, straws, gallons of milk, gallons of almond milk, creamers, flavor enhancers for water, platic bags that cereal is contained in, plastic trays that cookies are sitting in, that one slice of cake you get when you're having a sweet tooth, the containers our meat is stored in, frozen food storage, frozen Vegetable storage...... I mean, the list goes on and on...... 🤦🏾♀️
Contact lenses, the plastic fresh vegetables are stored in, the plastic that wraps cheese..
@IMeMineWho Frames for eye glasses, lunch meat containers/storage, toys.. I mean, come on.... how are we going to avoid these things? Our entire lives are made of plastic.... lol
@lsbrgss I guess we try to reduce as much as we can.
@IMeMineWho right ✅️
@@IMeMineWho Exactly. Glass frames? Switch to metal frames. Anna In Ohio
Many months ago I got rid of plastic storage containers and replaced them with ceramics, stainless steel and glass. 👍🏽
I was at a restaurant dinner with a group of friends. One of the attendees pulled out a container that he had brought from home, and loaded his leftovers into it. I think it was a glass container with a plastic lid with a gasket. I've got those, the brand is snap ware. I think I am going to start doing that, because 90% of the time I take food home. Genius.
I have few of those, bought them in Aldi. They are good, but I find that the gaskets tend to fall off after a while. Still, they can be used at home without them.
That is what I use now
@@theclumsyprepper Not sure where you are located, but Sam's Club in the USA has a large set for $25. The gaskets haven't fallen out of mine. Might be an Aldi thing.
@AmandaTexas I'm in Ireland and we do not have Sam's here.
It's definitely an Aldi thing, most of their stuff is made in China.
Quick fix: stop making them.
Wouldn’t microwaving TV dinner style foods packaged in similar plastic containers also be leaking microplastics as well?
Yes.
Yup. But at that point, if you're eating tv dinners do you really care what else you put in your body?
@@creepcraddle Healthy Choice has some lower fat high protein options that score moderate on the Yuka nutritional app.
No.
@@creepcraddle
In my country we often pour boiling hot coffee in thin plastic cups and I would see sometimes the cup slightly shrinking and deforming by the heat. It's crazy most people don't even question whether something is healthy or not. They just follow the status quo.
I work in the shop that has self-service coffee machines and whenever I see a customer buying, or using a reusable plastic cup I casually mention that they leach the toxins. I convinced few people to buy stainless steel cups instead of that junk. One woman in particular was interested, because her own cup made the tea taste "funny". It was years old so I can't even imagine how much it leached out.
The flimsy cups you wrote about must be a hundred times worse.
So basically every frozen dinner is killing you once you microwave it. Great.
Even the things you're told to "recycle" can't be recycled. Such foolishness.
The whole system is a scam
Plastic is being found in placentas. There needs to be enough public outcry and consumer withholding before change is made. From potentially contributing to PCOS and behavioral issues, microplastics have been ridiculed for years.
Corporate America doesn't respond to "crying out" or even voting. It might respond to massive strikes across multiple sectors - better than CEO open-season.
Moral of the story. Don't trust these same companies who give you the toxic plastics in every damn thing we use
Would you prefer single-use wood storage containers?
How about the dangers of SELLING items in plastic containers? Or heating them in the plastic containers they come in? Including the paper ones with the plastic film over the top?
🤷♀️
Maybe write a thesis?
It looks like only you’re concerned about it.
I like grape Jello and crispy fish sticks .
Let the containers come to room temp and put them in a glass container for heating.. Pyrex or if you are old school like me? I buy in the thrift stores Corning Ware brand or Glass Pie Plates that can be used to heat the items without a mess. Try to buy frozen veggies in a bag that are not "Steamable" and put in a glass container to heat instead. Not only safer but but cheaper. Anna In Ohio
News flash, clothes have plastic that are released when you wash them. Americans are obsessed with plastic
What about K-Cups? You throw near-boiling water through those every day (for those that have/use Keurig machines), which additionally has a plastic holder in the machine the coffee brews through.
So true 😅😅😅
We need to be MORE CAREFUL now 🧐
Blessings from Taiwan 🇹🇼 🥳
Jesus loves everyone 😇 🎁
Older generation especially likes to think these take out containers are reusable and microwave safe and they don’t want to believe it when I tell them no. I’ll be saving this vid to share 😂
Lol I told one of my younger coworkers this years ago, but he didn't want to listen
You are one of those smart young whipper snappers aren’t you?
I’ll bake you a pie and invite the old folks over.
Bless your heart!❤️🙏
Older generation tends to use the china their folks got them!😉
Plastic is something that has done so much damage around the world. It’s so sad that so many things are made or used with plastic. My siblings and I have been swapping out and replacing. That’s what gets you to realize that it’s everywhere.
Just about everything we eat and drink in is a plastic container. And a lot of people are cooking "in a bad" with steamed vegetables, pork loins, and slow cooker liners. A lot of lasagnas and one minute meals are baked in plastic as well. The food comes in plastic, cooks in plastic, stored in plastic. Food for thought
This is SO poorly worded, uses fear as its click-bait and squanders time. They keep saying "single use" but the key safety factor is not heating, either with food in it or while washing. Black plastic IS known to contain worse chemicals that heat can release, so not ideal as a spatula in a hot pan, but even then it doesn't release much unless it contacts the hot surface for several minutes. Getting glass containers is great, but using some plastic knowledgeably is okay. And we don't want everyone panicking and throwing all plastic away.
The black plastic study from a few months back also contained a typo that resulted in a massive math error.
Good luck buying peanut butter or mayo in glass jars in grocery stores. Plastic from containers leach into food, water and liquids that you eat. Buy stuff in glass. Save yourself.
Here in Europe, peanut butter is sold in glass jars…
Make your own peanut butter
Teddy peanut butter is still in glass jars but I did see it once as plastic.
The cheap garbage comes in plastic. Smucker's Natural is one of the brands in a glass jar; nothing in the product except peanuts.
@@Chris-yk1mm Smucker's also doesn't taste good, so...
I always put it on a plate and then heat it up, I don't heat it up in the plastic container.......I bet most people do that.
Who in the hell reheats leftovers in the to go container?
That’s why I still use my mother’s Corningware.
Yeah you wised up and got rid of all the plastic, but there’s still pesticides in your produce, heavy metals in the store bought juice your kids love, forever chemicals in the water and air, plus carcinogens in clothes, bedding, non stick cookware and furniture in your home.
You can’t win for losing. 🤷♂️
I am so old that I can remember when the human species could survive without all these plastics.
It's not just plastic .. Like James Douglas Morrison said "No one gets out alive." So if you take care of the plastic what else is in your environment that may be taking a toll on your health? That hasn't been reported on?
You could move onto the hundreds of tons of wasted fast fashion sitting in massive piles in the global south poisoning their drinking water.
So in other words this has nothing whatsoever to do with storing food in plastic containers, it’s about heating food in those containers. I imagine the conspiracists and scare-mongers will latch onto this very quickly.
You didn't pay attention. There were several important warnings embedded in the video that were about more than simply heating food in those containers.
Did you miss the warning at 1:26 about plain old longterm use & reuse of these containers? Or the warning about the effects of putting even thick plastics in the dishwasher to clean them? (1:31). Or the part at the end, where we're advised to not even reuse single-use plastic water bottles? (2:40)
The issue with these plastics clearly goes deeper than simply re-heating food, altho reheating in plastic containers so far appears to create the most significant leaching of contaminants into food.
We're in the earliest stages of studying this issue. But preliminary findings seem to indicate contact time, temperature & type of food may all affect transfer rates of microplastics & other chemical contaminants. Wrt contact time, that may mean storage in plastics increases leaching & exposure.
Bottom line is just get rid of all plastic containers.
@@tothelighthouse9843why are ‘we’ still only in the early stages of figuring this sh*t out? why are the so-called best and brightest in this country so far behind in everything???
@@califiasrevenge Great question, I agree completely!
Unfortunately, the answer is always the same: MONEY & GREED.
Cutting corners is how a lot of corporations make their wealth. They view ethics & safety as profit-destroyers: look at how big pharma marketed opioids like oxycontin & fentanyl!
Corporations have already bought up the best & brightest, offering them insane salaries to ignore public health & safety in the race to bigger profits.
And of course corporations throw money at politicians. In exchange for campaign contributions & another 4 years at the trough, politicians do the bidding of their corporate overlords--politicians get rid of 'inconvenient' regulations & oversight, & starve public institutions like the EPA that are there to protect the public.
I'm sure the best & brightest in the plastics industries are already designing their public disinformation campaign to undermine the new science that's coming out. Just like big oil & gas rolled out a massive smear campaign to discredit global-warming science.
@@tothelighthouse9843 OP said it is about letting the plastic be exposed to heat, not storing in plastic in the fridge. You didn’t pay attention. The video says reheating in plastic is bad, at 1:26. And washing them in the heat of a dishwasher 1:31. "It’s about heating plastic containers", that part.
2:40 Statement is silly. What, so it’s okay to drink out of a plastic bottle once in the airport, but reusing by filling it a second time is so different and only it is bad? Nonsense. If you need water at the airport and you get it from a plastic water bottle, there is no greater harm from refilling and drinking a 2nd bottle full, while traveling. (But of course, if you have a water non-plastic drink thermos handy, and a beverage for it, use it).
OP was correct about people reaching beyond the reheating concerns.
"possible", "maybe", "we don't know" , "not concrete evidence", guaranteed we ALL WILL die from something, no one will escape. I choose NOT to live in CONSTANT FEAR from all these fear-mongering entities.
Awww good choice
They just don't want to admit culpability when the truth is plain.
That's easy to say when you are say, 23..
Well, I'm a whole LOT older than 23. Happy New Year
@beesilverbee Hoppy NY!🐇
I have never, ever, microwaved anything in a plastic container in my whole life. I just assumed it would have melted. I put all of my foods on a glass dish or bowl.
I never imagined people would put plastic in a microwave.
That’s not NEW. I already know this about 10 years ago.
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🙏💯positive thoughts and prayers to all in need GOD BLESS❤
Storing your food yes. Heating no.Move to a real bowl then microwave it.
Let the food cool before storing it and don't use microwave.. simple as that
That's it. I quit eating.
😂
Everyone..have a wonderful day ..blessings and much love to you all ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Bring your own containers for take out. Problem solved.
Don’t use plastics containers but eat these cancer ridden Oreos and cereal it’s good for you!
Never store anything in plastics. I learned this a long time ago when I noticed how the food would leach out on the plastics so I threw out all my plastics (ALL PLASTICS) and only use glass or stainless steel.
Jars are best for everything people's and canning is best so is fermentation 😊
OMG you had me at FERMENTATION!
Been doing Tupperware since the 80’s 🤣
At this point, don’t eat, drink, touch, or grow anything cus everything is contaminated.
😂😂😂😂❤👍👍👍👍in otherwise do not Breath 😂
Well, then why is most of the food in the stores all stored in plastic?
Imagine microwaving plastic and thinking it’s safe
Any story based off of a " TikTok user " isn't a good way to add credibility.
Yes. I scrolled quite a bit before finding a comment that resonates. This is clickbait and time filler. No real news value.
Dangerous but keeps using and producing. So what's the point 🙄🙄🙄
My mom was right damn … about everything
Thanks Walmart family. You really raised our standard of living over the last 40 years. Totally have not destroyed our country.
Im pretty sure we went over this already... Like 100 years ago🥱
Most people need to start with the basics before they consider trying to avoid the nearly impossible.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence almost all the images they used contained Asian food....
Never reheat in a microwave with your food in plastic container.!
I kept a chinese food take out container for a few weeks as a tupperware in college. But at the end of those few weeks, even putting food in it for a few minutes would make it taste like straight up plastic. Better to just get glass.
Don't EVER put hot food into a plastic container! Don't EVER put food in a plastic container into a microwave! Duh!
It has taken me years however I’ve made significant changes to the way I eat and package my food I’m Giving up microwaving and air frying very soon as well Back to basics cooking and reheating on the stove and eating from the earth
You mean with gas or electricity? You have admitted step one, now move to step two.
Can you imagine the stress you would induce in your life if you actually believed every ‘disaster du jour’ found on the internet?
Still, knowledge is powerful. We do the best we can . It’s like climate change. We rationally should elect politicians who understand the danger. Unfortunately too many stupid people
Its not a disaster du jour, but it is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
@@aquariusdreaming a crime that has been happening off and on millions of years before humanity even existed.
Go put on a third mask and crawl back under your bed.
I’ve always said to my family and friends that plastic is bad for years I have told them this. I only drink or eat out of glass. Water bottles I only drink once then it gets recycled
I try to avoid all plastic containers and bring a glass or metal container.
But cans have bpa liners (except for Del Monte and a few others), vegetables, cheese and if you eat meat (I don't eat meat), it is wrapped in plastic, clothes bought online are in plastic bags...
We have sacrificed so much to the god of Convenience. It is ironic that we are killing ourselves for the sake of ease and comfort.
Another thing they're not distinguishing is how much microplastic is in our tap water or the source water for what is sold in plastic, versus how much gets into the water from its plastic container (under cool conditions, such as when we merely refill an empty plastic water bottle). Microplastics are everywhere, including in the air we breathe and animal products we eat...
Even testicles have microplastics in them today. We are already doomed.
I don’t heat food on ANY food container and I got rid of my microwave so that I do not get tempted. Why is it allowed to continue selling plastic??? Let’s get rid of it!
Your whole world is plastic ..it's in your cloths. Want to get rid of plastic????stop using it
Me watching this while eating leftover dinner with a plastic spork on a plastic container that i just reheated in a microwave. Im also drinking water on a reused plastic water bottle. Because why not.
Because convenience, cost, and FDA don't care about you as an individual
They are literally called single use plastics you’re not supposed to use them multiple times. I know people who keep them and use them and wash them like their regular dishes, but they are single use items. Not meant to be used more than once.
Forget the microthings. You shouldn't use single use plastic containers because they turn oil into permanent waste.
Oh don't you worry I only eat my leftovers cold
I stopped using a microwave a decade ago. I keep a dinky one for the dog sitter that I set up in the kitchen when she sits.
I carry 4 empty glass containers in my lunch bag every where I go. my colleague were like "aw you care so much about the environment", well partly that, but I'm just nervous when they put hot food in plastic containers and I later eat it.
Let's store food in paper bags or towels. Not. In a perfect world 😂
Wearing those glasses, and posting a PSA without research, and suddenly the information is credible? "More research needs to be done" means the statements are fluff and not to be taken as fact. Do what makes sense for you, period.
I don’t even have a microwave. I like to take the food out from the container to steam it, pan fry or stir fry. I always thought plastic will melt in such high temperature.
I do the same thing.
(It certainly makes more sense than trying to microwave a plastic container)
This is true. Have you ever drink a bottle of water and it tastes like plastic?
Took it way too far with not refilling a plastic water bottle. Cut the crap 💀
I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that statement. The bottle is either safe for WATER or it's not, right?
@@charlesritter6640 The implication is that single use plastic bottles aren't safe for water. But we can't definitively say that because these are the earliest stages of studying this issue so we lack conclusive research right now. The only thing ABC can say, if they don't want to be sued, is 'don't reuse single use plastics'.
Most--but not all--studies show bottled water typically contains more microplastics than tap water. A recent Penn State study found bottled water contains an average of 325 plastic particles per litre, while tap water contains only 5.5.
@@tothelighthouse9843And what did study find about refilling a plastic water bottle at the airport with tap water? (This video concluded by saying a plastic water bottle at the airport should not be refilled, after all).
I would believe the plastic particles found in the water from a refilled (with tap water) plastic water bottle would be in between 5.5 and 325 per liter. So, why is the comment at the end that a plastic water bottle at the airport should not be refilled? (Hint: that was OP’s point at 2:45 that refilling being bad was an incorrect conclusion, along with the sensational TITLE of the video saying ‘storing’ food in plastic is bad, when the point is ‘heating’ plastic is bad; transfer to glass to nuke your food).
What has been said before is that PET water bottles are can become unsafe over time if you leave them in your car or in the sun. Also the narrow mouth makes it hard to clean thoroughly. If you use one of these for a long days biking in hot weather, I probably would only reuse it only one or two more times.
At least take the food out of the plastic and put on them on a plate.
I still have old time GLASS MILK CONTAINERS that sit in a double glass wire holder w/ a handle, that the milk-delivery person would leave at our front door. I still have GLASS pop and juice bottles. I use large pickle jars for wet and dry foods. Peanut butter, jelly, tomato sauce and condiment GLASS containers are great too. I remember a DEPOSIT on all drinking GLASS bottles in the state of Delaware, but NO MORE!!!!! IS THIS ALL FOR REAL!!!!!! I WONDER!!!!! Just our tax dollars blown away on maybes?? Here we go again🤔
And the sad thing is, in our town, they do not offer glass recycling. Some of the plastic symbols are so small you can't read them. Not all plastics are on their recycle list. Some are already recycled plastic and crumble trying to open them.
We are required to remove labels, wash the containers the best we can, smash them to make room in the bin and for aluminum cans, again, wash, remove labels, cut off top and bottom of cans and crush the can in half to flatten it. The lid and bottom are trash, as well as the caps for plastic bottles. Too much to do by the consumer when some of this can be done by workers to give people jobs.
Cardboard is to be clean, not covered in grease from a pizza box or sugar coated with the plastic see through cover of a donut box. Boxes are to be broken down so they stack better in the bin. At one time they required newspapers to be handed with string to keep the bundle together. Now that is not required.
It would be nice to have a news story to follow the processing of recycling from beginning to end.
This isn't just up to the people at home. This is on restaurants, companies, and factories. A lot of us use plastic and plastic is used to sell back to us.
So, they got rid of styrofoam containers because it was bad for the environment. But, why did they get rid of the white cardboard containers from the Chinese takeout restaurants? Bring those back ASAP. Our health matters. And bring back glass bottles too! I remember back in the ‘80’s when Snapple beverages were in glass bottles and they tasted better too!
I reckon the paper isn't just paper, but rather full of PFAS/ PFOS forever chemicals. Many of these seemingly innocuous containers are impregnated with resins and polymers... so essentially plasticised paper. People wish to believe it is only wax, and therefore naturally healthier, but I've read otherwise.
1978, met two engineers working at coca cola at a party. They opened the trunk of their car and announced "free coke for everyone " For the first time we were looking at coke in plastic bottles which had not hit the market yet. No one touched it. The engineer dudes were disappointed. It was earth day.
This is an excellent report.
This report is targeted towards weaklings.
You NEVER heat food in plastic. And that black plastic is EXTRA toxic (e-waste). May be my butt. They know if they're toxic when they make them. The consumers ARE the product. Capitalist rampant corporations don't care what happens to their customers.
Fear and death. Lets report the worst of the worst and just worry about money, not the human lives we’re reporting to.
I’ve known this for years! Never microwave in plastic and even better ditch the microwave and use a pan! I have for years 🙏🏽🌟
Can’t be worse than the food quality in this country
My Mil always uses and reuses them.
Me? I throw them away. Less dishes. Lol
Ecen coffee machine is plastic..It's not even steel..
The next time you dine-in at a fast food restaurant, please don't instinctively put a plastic lid on your drink, and skip the straw. Humans have been able to drink out of cups w/o plastic lids and straws for centuries.