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Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

My kitchen is probably similar to yours –filled with products that help me get dinner on the table fast. I have cans of beans and tomato paste on my pantry shelves. In the fridge, there’s usually a collection of leftovers –last nights’ lasagne, some barbecued chicken –in dishes covered with plastic wrap, ready to eat after zap in the microwave. I sometimes buy food and on plastic containers, I’ve been known to chop on a plastic cutting board and I carry water around in a plastic bottle.

So I’ve grown increasingly alarmed over news stories on plastic in recent months. First, reports quoted scientists and environment groups saying that the same containers and wraps may contain chemicals that can pose dangers to health, which among its many roles, is used to make a type of hard plastic and certain range of chemicals that, among their many uses, soften plastic.