Thanks for that. No apology necessary - that was rather hilarious.
N
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
Posts
-
Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet -
Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single PelletBeen 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).