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Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet (www.gu.se)

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

That's almost fair. The difference is: a banana is a living organism, and very few synthetic materials are supposed to have 80 differently-identifiable chemicals in them. This melange of death here is shit like dioxins, plasticizers, decomposition products, dyes and other additives, as well as the reaction products of all of THAT shit mixing at high temp in the melted plastic. If you aren't afraid, then I don't know how to help you, child.

Brushing this off with some trite banana comparison is just making a Robert Kehoe out of yourself.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

a banana is a living organism

So what? So is poison ivy. I wouldn't recommend eating it.

very few synthetic materials are supposed to have 80 differently-identifiable chemicals in them

I'm sorry but - what the fuck are you talking about? Who is deciding how many different chemicals should be in any given material? What sort of of ridiculousness is this?

This melange of death here is shit like dioxins, plasticizers, decomposition products, dyes and other additives, as well as the reaction products of all of THAT shit mixing at high temp in the melted plastic.

Which is my point - the NUMBER of items in a given material is just scare-mongering BS. The actual ingredients is what matters.

If you aren’t afraid, then I don’t know how to help you, child.

If you don't understand that the count of the number of chemicals in a thing doesn't relate to that thing's toxicity then I can't help you either kid.

[–] notastatist@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I dont know why you got downvoted, you are very right!

"We identified common plastics chemicals, including UV-stabilizers and plasticizers, as well as chemicals that are not used as plastics additives, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals and biocides. These may have contaminated the plastics during their first use phase, prior to becoming waste and being recycled."

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Just people deciding that divorcing a statement from its context (plastics manufacturing) is sufficient to say that no alarm need be raised. As I said: Robert Kehoe.