Comments on: Plastic Consumer http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:37:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Daniel Tue, 27 May 2008 20:59:49 +0000 http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/#comment-57 Great post! This post touches on so many issues beyond simply those related to plastics and BPA. You mention corn syrup (where to even begin with all the problems related to industrial corn growing?!). Also, we need to look at bottled water. A major contributer to the plastic bottle nightmare (2 million bottles used in the US every 5 minutes), bottled water is in many cases simply a ruse. Many water bottlers use municipal water sources (i.e. tap water) to fill their bottles and charge you a premium for the service. In fact municipal water must meet higher drinking water standards than bottled water! Check out bottled water blues for more on this: http://www.bottledwaterblues.com/Bottled_Water_Facts.cfm I am happy to say that my wife and I made the same conscious decision to omit plastic bottles from our lives. Thanks for the dialogue. Cheers, Daniel Great post!
This post touches on so many issues beyond simply those related to plastics and BPA. You mention corn syrup (where to even begin with all the problems related to industrial corn growing?!). Also, we need to look at bottled water. A major contributer to the plastic bottle nightmare (2 million bottles used in the US every 5 minutes), bottled water is in many cases simply a ruse. Many water bottlers use municipal water sources (i.e. tap water) to fill their bottles and charge you a premium for the service. In fact municipal water must meet higher drinking water standards than bottled water! Check out bottled water blues for more on this:
http://www.bottledwaterblues.com/Bottled_Water_Facts.cfm
I am happy to say that my wife and I made the same conscious decision to omit plastic bottles from our lives.
Thanks for the dialogue.
Cheers,
Daniel

]]> By: Charlie Plybon http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Charlie Plybon Sun, 25 May 2008 20:20:18 +0000 http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/#comment-56 Love this. Just came across this blog from a listserver I'm on...them (plastic industry) watching us (those rising above plastic): An Author on Crain Communications' Plastics News site's blog, check it out for a defensive laugh: http://www.plasticsnews.com/blog/2008/05/some_blogs_to_watch.html By the way Lawless, I owe you a t-shirt. Love this. Just came across this blog from a listserver I’m on…them (plastic industry) watching us (those rising above plastic): An Author on Crain Communications’ Plastics News site’s blog, check it out for a defensive laugh:

http://www.plasticsnews.com/blog/2008/05/some_blogs_to_watch.html

By the way Lawless, I owe you a t-shirt.

]]> By: lawless http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/comment-page-1/#comment-55 lawless Sat, 24 May 2008 20:39:58 +0000 http://surfpioneer.com/blog/plastic-consumer/#comment-55 So true. Just today, my wife and I did a little research into the plastic bottles that we use for our new childs breastmilk storage. The bottles we are using contain BPA. It's easy to make the decisions for ourselves and to enact them, but even more important is to make those same decisions for those who can't make the decision for themselves. And we wonder why cancer is so prolific. Our lives have been stored in products that leech toxins into our systems. I just opened my fridge and realized nearly everything in it is stored in plastic. Even the fresh fruit and veggies are cut up and stored in plastic containers. It's a serious mind shift to start getting away from that. Do I put things in glass bowls and cover them with alum. foil? More disposables, or am I better off keeping it in the re-usable plastic containers. So many little decisions to be made but once you realize the overall impact, it's easier to try and find solutions that maybe you wouldn't have made the effort for before. We're getting glass bottles for our newborn, and getting rid of all the plastic dinnerware for the kids. Nothing like a good Mt. Dew to keep you awake on the road, but now I'll take my Sigg bottle and get a fountain drink. Even my trusty Nalgene bottle has BPA in it. So the logical decision is not always a healthy one. 9 times out of 10 the way our grandparents did things turns out to be the best way after all. And here we think we have progressed. I can remember my grandmother's prolific vegetable garden and her canning fruits and veggies every winter. She had a huge compost pile which she used to enrichen the soil in her garden. Pre-packaged food wasn't really an option. Convenience, sometimes there is quite a price to pay for it. So true. Just today, my wife and I did a little research into the plastic bottles that we use for our new childs breastmilk storage. The bottles we are using contain BPA. It’s easy to make the decisions for ourselves and to enact them, but even more important is to make those same decisions for those who can’t make the decision for themselves. And we wonder why cancer is so prolific. Our lives have been stored in products that leech toxins into our systems.

I just opened my fridge and realized nearly everything in it is stored in plastic. Even the fresh fruit and veggies are cut up and stored in plastic containers. It’s a serious mind shift to start getting away from that. Do I put things in glass bowls and cover them with alum. foil? More disposables, or am I better off keeping it in the re-usable plastic containers. So many little decisions to be made but once you realize the overall impact, it’s easier to try and find solutions that maybe you wouldn’t have made the effort for before.

We’re getting glass bottles for our newborn, and getting rid of all the plastic dinnerware for the kids.

Nothing like a good Mt. Dew to keep you awake on the road, but now I’ll take my Sigg bottle and get a fountain drink. Even my trusty Nalgene bottle has BPA in it. So the logical decision is not always a healthy one. 9 times out of 10 the way our grandparents did things turns out to be the best way after all. And here we think we have progressed. I can remember my grandmother’s prolific vegetable garden and her canning fruits and veggies every winter. She had a huge compost pile which she used to enrichen the soil in her garden. Pre-packaged food wasn’t really an option.

Convenience, sometimes there is quite a price to pay for it.

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