no plastic bags, containers ever?
I use plastic bags and containers if something comes in them, like bread or juice if that is all it comes in.
He must never drink from a plastic cup either. Perhaps glass is healthier?
Glass is absolutely healthier. The fact is that if something, especially a liquid, is in plastic, like bottled water, there is actually plastic in the water. There are minute particles of plastic, and the plastic leaches into liquid even quicker when it is in the hot sun. Things taste like plastic because there is plastic in them. Most people probably can't tell anymore.
Buy water in a plastic bottle and a glass bottle and you can taste the difference.
Plastic SHOULD be listed as one of the ingredients in foods and liquids sold in it, but it isn't, because the plastic industry and the food industry don't want to, because plastic is so break resistant and lightweight, so it saves them money, and increases their profits.
That doesn't change the fact that plastic is toxic.
As an aside, tea bags are toxic, too. The paper of the bags is bleached white with dioxin, and dioxin is carcinogenic. When you put a tea bag into a mug of hot water, it fizzes. Tea doesn't fizz. It's the chemicals in the bag that are fizzing.
If you put tea leaves in water in a stainless steel holder, it won't fizz.
Automotive interiors with plastic and vinyl leach a gas called polyvinyl-chloride, which is carcinogenic. That is what the new car smell is. It is poisonous. The fog that appears on the inside of car windows is the plastic leaching from the plastic and vinyl in the interior. If it is like that on the windows, think about what it is like on the inside of your lungs when you breathe it in, especially on a hot day.
That is why you should always open the windows and doors for a bit before to get in the car especially on a hot day. You don't want to breathe those carcinogenic vapors.
Of course, vintage cars and really high end cars have very little plastic in their interiors.
The new figure smell is poisonous, too. I know that people have a positive psychological association to the new action figure smell, but those are toxic vapors that can cumulative negative effects on your health.
This is why I prefer figures in a sealed case. It keeps the dust off the figures, and keeps the toxic gases from the plastic out of my lungs.
I'm not paranoid about it or anything, but I know what the stuff does, so it is just prudent to take steps to reduce the exposure to the toxins of plastic as much as is convenient.
All petrochemical plastic emits carcinogenic gas. Plastic out-gasses until all of the plasticizers are gone, and then it crumbles to dust. The best thing to do is to protect your figures from the environment, like UV and excess oxygen, so that it lasts longer, the plasticizers don't leach out as fast, and you don't breather them into your lungs.
Plastic can also be made from vegetable oil, like hermpseed oil, which does not emit polyvinyl chloride, because it doesn't come from petroleum.
