Most people now seem to realize that plastic containers for food and beverages are not exactly the best material to use due to leaching, but what about recycled plastic containers? It turns out that those are even worse.
Recycled plastics, due to the various lives they lived before being recycled, tend to be contaminated with even more deadly chemicals than virgin plastics.
Among the toxins found in recycled plastics are chemical pesticides, pharmaceutical residues and various industrial chemicals.
This is exactly what millions of people unknowingly do every single day when they drink from recycled plastic bottles or eat from recycled plastic containers.
Virgin plastic is bad enough as it is, but recycled plastic is even worse.
"We need a fundamentally different approach that turns the tap off on new plastic production," argues Dr. Andrew Forrest, chairman of the Minderoo Foundation, about how a pivot away from plastic is desperately needed to protect public health and limit public exposure to the nasty toxins found in plastics - especially recycled plastics.
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