Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds
Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds | CNN
Not only this, but the machines used to process food shed plastic too. Which I think people are even less happy to hear, because this means simply buying food in glass and paper containers doesn't make much difference.
Analysis of microplastics in commercial vegetable edible oils from Italy and Spain
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308814624002152
It’s pretty much inescapable and we need government regulation. I’m surprised the EU hasn’t led the way here yet, but they probably will be among the first.
This is going to turn out to be the lead of our time isn’t it?
This is just one of several "leads of our time".
PFAS is another.
Overuse of neonicotinoid pesticides is another.
Plastic is such a fucking disease. There are so few items you can buy in a supermarket that aren't somehow covered in it. I get it, it's super convenient. Which is why as long as it's legal, the situation won't change.
I think heavy taxes on plastic could change the situation; if plastic packaging isn't economically viable, alternatives will be used.
This would be totally unpopular I'm sure, so it will probably won't come before climate change killed us.
I hate it so much. I can’t buy shit without plastic.
They should just take a deposit for reusable ceramic, glass, or metal containers. If you want to keep it, keep it; if it is fine, you just return it and get your deposit. They can be sanitized.
In bakeries, deli, and butcher sections in supermarkets, everything is plastic.
Everything is wrapped in plastic now when it wasn't like it 30 years ago. I think the side-effects of microplastics are going to affect every child alive today for life.
I was so happy that a lot of places were banning plastic during the pandemic. The large trend only lasted a year in my country, but at least some businesses have dropped plastic bags altogether. Small wins?
One of the studies included in the new review found 1 liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters bought at the store — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics.
Sounds like plastic bottle manufacturers aren't rinsing their product before the get shipped and filled.
Plastic bottles are usually made from preforms delivered from the plastic bottle manufacturer. The rinsing would ideally be when the bottle is formed from a preform at the soda plant, before the bottle is filled. Some do this (sometimes with harsh chemicals), but most don’t as they consider the preform as sufficiently clean enough to fill.
I'll continue to use glass bottles with metal caps then. But I've never seen a glass bottle with a plastic cap
I hate to break it to you... Glass bottle microplastics study
How do you think the gaskets are made?
No shit, hot food sheds plastic from its container.
It's more than just take-out packaging.
Ripping the plastic wrap from the meat or prepackaged fruit and veggies you purchased at the grocery store may contaminate your food with micro- and nanoplastics, according to new research.
Plastic contamination may also occur when you’re unwrapping deli meat and cheese, steeping a tea bag in hot water, or opening cartons of milk or orange juice. Glass bottles and jars with a plastic-coated metal closure may also shed microscopic bits of plastic, the study found.
It is in everything, even our brains. You thought covid was bad on your cognitive abilities, plastic is making it worse day by day.
I wonder if it's the reason that everyone seems to have lost their fucking minds these days.
Was waiting for this one!