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"Plastics touching our food may be making us gain weight. Hormone-disrupting chemicals are entering our bodies. We eat 44lbs of plastic in our lifetimes."
More reasons to avoid processed foods, they often are packaged in plastic.
The problem these days is it's really hard to avoid plastic. Milk, yoghurt is mostly in plastic unless you pay a lot more.
Tin cans, that ware white inside - plastic lined.
Greaseproof paper... it's plastic coated.
And those takeaway coffee cups... not paper, again it's plastic coated and containing very hot liquid = not good at all.
I tried to do zero plastic grocery shopping back in 2019, shopping at markets and independent stores etc. But it was hard to completely avoid plastic.
- ALL tin cans, made from aluminium, steel or tin, have a plastic inner lining.Nairn
- there is micro plastic in the water by now.
but it's a good thing not to buy plastic food. less plastic in tin cans than in pet bottles.uan - https://www.theguard…uan
- ^tap water
bottled water:
https://time.com/558…uan