A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study with researchers from University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can leach chemicals into water causing impacts in the hormone systems and lipid metabolism of zebrafish larvae.
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.
So what? So is poison ivy. I wouldn’t recommend eating it.
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?
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 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.