3. Ready-to-eat meals and other food packagings
Most ready-to-eat meals are served in plastic packaging. This not only leaches microplastics into the food during manufacturing, but the same thing can happen when the plastic containers are oven-baked or microwaved.
The best thing you can do is avoid eating foods that contain plastic. Still, if you have to buy them, try to get ones made of cardboard. The great thing is that nowadays, many manufacturers are moving away from plastic. Also, when you bring your food home, make sure you heat it in a ceramic or glass container.
When it comes to take-away beverages, most cups contain a layer of polyethene and plastic in the lid. This can leach into the drink and will break down into particles of plastic when disposed of. The best solution is to use your own takeout cup made from a biodegradable material like bambo.
Plastic soup and juice containers also leach microplastic into their contents, so you can add them to the list of foods that contain plastic. Another reason why it’s healthier to make your own.
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Microplastics are everywhere. Reducing our daily consumption is likely futile, you will ingest microplastics. Every breath you take, every bite of food, and everything you drink has microplastics. Your reusable plastic water bottle sheds microplastics. That said, plastics are a vital part of our modern life. There are no alternatives right now. Without plastics healthcare would be very different. Single use disposable everything provides the best barrier to pathogens. Just try to live a day in our world without plastics.
I’ve read recently that close to 90% of cans are no longer lined with BPA. Of course other plastic-related products are used.
Also, not all filters will remove microplastics.
This is one of the most ignorant articles I’ve read in some time. Mastery of buzzwords without ANY actual knowledge is a sad and dangerous thing.
What good is it to show how dangerous and truly unhealthy are food products are if low income and average income status people cannot afford the alternative, which is of course organic and whole foods which are beyond our pay grades??? PLEASE RESPOND!