The Walk of Life

When my mother took me for marketing when I was just a kid, I noticed the common usage of newspaper, brown paper wrappings for meat and vegetables, and they were tied with a long straw! Big leaves of some river plants were also used as wraps. Then around the 60’s Plastics entered our lives in Malaysia! We begin to see plastic bags, slippers, pails, containers, etc and hey! remember those Tupperware parties?

Today, nearly every household item we see in our kitchen are made from Plastics! Take a look at the symbols below and do they look familiar?

Yes, they are Markings at the bottom of our Plastic Drinking Bottles! Here is a list of these Markings from Number 1 to 7 and the type of Plastic to the applications they are meant for.

I am sure many of you have heard of the danger of re-using plastic drinking bottles and if the Number is 5 and above it is safe! I found out that Plastic Bottles are just NOT SAFE to use from 1 to 7, and especially not for heating food or drinks in Microwave Ovens. It seems that a substance call Dioxin would be released into our food and Dioxins are cancer causing substances! Number 7 contains a very dangerous substance call Bisphenol A!

Apart from Plastic Bottles, we have the same problem with Plastic Food Wraps which is especially bad if we microwave our food with these wraps on!

Given below is a link to a video on the health hazards of using Plastic Drinking Bottles.

If you want more information, visit the sites below and get all the facts about the danger of these plastic bottles! Now we have the Green Movement to save our environment in connection with the usage of plastics and also we have the health hazards involved. A good lesson to learn.