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Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet (www.gu.se)

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Been a while since I was in a lab (I was mainly concerned with squishy, squidgy things like microbes, so not quite OChem either) but, this looks accurate to me with a minor bit of pedantry that I had to validate before mentioning. BPA is not actually a plasticizer but a monomer/co-monomer (it does frequently get incorrectly labeled as a plasticizer in retail products). Notably in polycarbonate, which is something like 90% BPA by mass.

A big issue with is the incomplete reaction of monomers, leading to things like room-temp leeching of unreacted BPA in polycarbonate (so glad that I took a Nalgene with me everywhere for years when I was younger /s).

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Thanks! Edited to account for "and other additives"

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You misspelled "a minor bit of pedantry". Sorry. It had to be done.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Thanks for that. No apology necessary - that was rather hilarious.