Plactic World

[Daniel the Crypto Lord]

Hey, what’s your take on microplastics?

Do you actually check labels before putting plastic containers in the microwave? Do you try to avoid disposable stuff and use metal utensils instead?

Curious how careful you are about this and if you have any simple tips to avoid plastic exposure in daily life.

[Lord_of_Six_Seven]

plastic is pretty much everywhere in our life.

there is suggestions to avoid them such as our clothes, you can try to buy 100% cotton as oppose to polyester which has plastics in it.
also your bed sheets, use cotton sheets instead of polyester .

you can also replace plastic cups with glass cups or metal.

[Ocham]

Hey, what’s your take on microplastics?

Do you actually check labels before putting plastic containers in the microwave? Do you try to avoid disposable stuff and use metal utensils instead?

Curious how careful you are about this and if you have any simple tips to avoid plastic exposure in daily life.

All plastic containers are safe.Before using them in the microwave. You should always check the label for like Microwave safe.It is best to avoid single-use plastic cup, plates, and bottles, and instead use reusable glass or stainles  steel containers. Using metal or glas for cooking serving food. Also reduces direct contact with plastic. Processed foods of have plastic linings or packaging, so possible, it is a better to eat fresh foods vegetables, and fruits. Try to avoid single use plastic bags. When shopping. Overall. For heating or storing food, using glass or stainles steel containers is the safest option.

[Vod]

Do you try to avoid disposable stuff and use metal utensils instead?

Yes.  It pisses me off when a restaurant sends me plastic utensils I didn't ask for - they go right in the garbage.      But what you are describing is not microplastics - those are the ones we cannot see, they pass through our filters and get broken down into smaller pieces for up to a thousand years. 

[BADecker]

Plastic comes from oil... oil being chemically altered. And it is becoming pollution. And Trump and the money system like the oil profits even though the oil is being used to kill us all.

[(BTC)]

You should always check the label for like Microwave safe.

I learned a long time ago to never trust labels. Same goes for advertising. Cigarettes once upon a time had advertisements saying they were healthy and labels telling customers the brand was reccomended by doctors. I've had "microwavable safe" containers warp/melt after heating them in said microwave.

I've read somewhere that there is an estimated 1-5 grams worth of microplastic material in our body by the time we would pass of old age. You could make an average spoon out of that much plastic.