Nowadays plastic utensils can be found everywhere.
All the things that are “worthless” and are used only once, contain an impressive list of dangerous chemical compounds.
Sales of disposable things are growing worldwide at an incredible pace. In America, there are even supermarkets from the dollar”, which sold hundreds of different products disposable.
But here’s the problem. Researchers from Good Housekeeping found that 81% of the products that they sell contain at least one hazardous chemical. In 49% of two or more. We are talking mainly about phthalates, polyvinyl chloride, antimony, lead, bromine and chromium.
At the same time in them there are lots of other substances that can also be very dangerous. But people buy these products its simplicity and cheapness. Who hasn’t bought disposable forks, pins and cups, when we were going on a picnic? And who of you takes the disposable supermarket bags?
Why this is important. Because almost all things that are “worthless” and are used only once, contain an impressive list of dangerous chemical compounds.
Take, for example, phthalates. It’s such binding reagents, which make plastic flexible. It is known that they associated with the failures of the hormonal system in men increased levels of the female hormone estrogen, women have “male” testosterone. He is also associated with many congenital defects in children, if pregnant women use such things), with some types of cancer and even provoke asthma.
And about the lead want to know? It delays mental and physical development in children. And Bromine and does slows down the mental development of children and adolescents is often the cause of skin diseases and are generally very harmful for the kidneys. And this is only part of the dangers that he carries himself.
