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by gelert 1804 days ago
Well, one of the big risks of plastics are the hormonal effects which are still little understood. There are serious reasons to remove most plastics from our day-to-day lives which makes reclaiming/recycling existing plastics less desirable - we should be removing them.
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This is true. Just about everyone's pee has measurable BPA.. even AFTER we removed the BPA everywhere...
I was under the impression that phalates only linger in the body for a short while? Also - we definitely have not eliminated the use of BPA “everywhere”.