Problem of Plastic Food safety is one of the biggest concerns facing today’s consumer. And the safety of our food is not only the food itself (chemical pesticides, food additives, genetic engineering, lethal bacteria)-it’s also the packaging.
Plastics: Life After the Blue Box Plastic packaging has come under scrutiny of late, but the good news is that it can be recycled repeatedly to find new life in different products without ending up in landfills.
The Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle When it comes to saving the environment, they’re all part of the package. When it comes to product packaging, consumers often consider the end result--whether it can be reused or recycled. This, however, is only one part of responsible consumerism.
Rising Concerns: The “New PCBs” A family of poisons that has been accumulating rapidly in the environment-and in the bodies of Canadians-is now causing serious health concerns among even the most conservative scientists.
Food Storage Solutions That luscious red tomato, green cucumber, and black-olive salad sprinkled with creamy feta may look appealing in its crystal-clear polystyrene dome, but that doesn’t make it taste any better! We want to invest in environmentally sound practices when it comes to food packaging.
Plastic Paradox During a recent discussion with my stepdaughter Stephanie, she related that at a gathering of mothers and their toddlers, the topic of microwaving plastic baby bottles was broached. A concern of many researchers is that BPA acts as a hormone disruptor that can mimic natural hormones even when people are exposed to extremely low dosages.
Plastic Pros and Cons Plastic surrounds us. Our telephones, our carpets, and even the fleece we’re wearing all may contain plastic. We store our food in it, drink water from it, and even brush our teeth with it. It’s cheap, convenient, and versatile—but how much do we really know about this wonder material?
Saving Our Planet A reduction of 50,000 plastic bags in one year from just one teeny tiny town? That’s exactly what happened in the small northern community of Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, when they became the first municipality in North America to make outlaws of those pesky single-use plastic bags.
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