atomic-raygun

Plumbum

I equate plastics now with the use of lead in Roman times. Cheap! Easily formable! Toxic! When I was young I was rather shocked to find out that styrofoam coffecups were poisonous as it seems the most basic good sense to keep anything toxic away from things one ingests. Even forgetting plastics, the food supply in these parts is contaminated with any number of things from hormones fed to animals to antibiotics to chemical residues so widely dispersed through the air, soil, and water that there is no way to avoid them completely.

Plastics are widely dispersed, too, from the shower curtains people use to food packaging. Manufacturing, using, and disposing of toxic plastics - a modern short-term convenience with a nasty hangover.

posted by

- 12:18 PM

Comments:

You might be interested in this Leave No Plastic Behind Exhibit - if you can get down to Portland. Also has a LNPB guideline link.

http://plastic.cheryllohrmann.com/

# posted by

Anonymous : 15 June, 2008 12:22

Thanks for the link, Delta.

# posted by

Osprey : 15 June, 2008 13:00

Like planes and cars, the world can no longer exist without things like plastics... the key will be in making the technologies work that will ensure they are a 'clean' and safe resource and not just a cheap throw-away problem that we stockpile for our kids' kids.

Mind you, I have no chuffing idea how we do that. Getting rid of the people who want to keep oil king would be a start :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 16 June, 2008 01:24

Yes. I think a good place to start is to test plastics and ban their use for food if they are toxic either at room temperature or when heated. The combination of microwaves and plastics is not the best.

Of course in this country the government body that was to oversee food has been dismantled and put into the hands of its enemies.

# posted by

Osprey : 16 June, 2008 07:50

Post a Comment