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by neom 525 days ago
My mum has been on the plastics thing since as long as I can remember (35+ years), we never had plastic in the house and if someone gave us something in tupperware mum wouldn't let us eat it, ha. Once I questioned her on this as I thought it was nuts, she said "plastic can melt, stretch, move, if it breaks off or leaks into our food it's toxic because it's chemicals, that is why we only use glass metal and wood in this house" - I still thought she was nuts, toxic plastic? What a load of hippie hogwash... I thought...