Guest guest Posted March 4, 2002 Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 Has anyone come up with some successful substitutions for plastic in their kitchen? (bowls, lids, saran wrap...) Is waxed paper a good substitute or are we just trading toxins? It seems everything I use has been wrapped in plastic at some point. I'm noticing even the butcher paper seems to be plastic coated instead wax coated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2002 Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 We haven't succeeded in total replacement, but we use lots of mason jars. DMM > Has anyone come up with some successful substitutions for plastic in their > kitchen? (bowls, lids, saran wrap...) Is waxed paper a good substitute or > are we just trading toxins? It seems everything I use has been wrapped in > plastic at some point. I'm noticing even the butcher paper seems to be > plastic coated instead wax coated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2002 Report Share Posted March 4, 2002 I have also been using those mixing bowls from Walmart that are glass with plastic lids. I figure at least the lids are generally not touching and I am not promoting more plastic waste by using plastic wrap. I do not know what is best. I do think glass is good though, I have not heard of any poisoning from glass but maybe I am wrong. I have heard of lots of heavy metal poisoning including stainless steel and using aluminum foil for covering would not be the greatest. I have not heard anything much about wax paper. Is it a food grade wax? Grace, a Augustine I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish you enough ''Hello's " to get you through the final goodbye. --anonymous ----- Original Message ----- From: BrenRuble@... Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:00 AM Subject: avoiding plastic Has anyone come up with some successful substitutions for plastic in their kitchen? (bowls, lids, saran wrap...) Is waxed paper a good substitute or are we just trading toxins? It seems everything I use has been wrapped in plastic at some point. I'm noticing even the butcher paper seems to be plastic coated instead wax coated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 I don't know about sippies....but we just got some cool water bottles that look like plastic but are made from corn! And they have built in charcoal filters. Re: Ca: Oakland Trib's 'body burden' investigation gets scientific credential - EHP article - !!! There's a book called " Green Living " by the authors of E/Environmental Magazine (I believe) that talks about dangers out there and ways to avoid them. Also lists companies in each chapter that supply more environmentally-friendly items. This is in the U.S., since I know this group is international. Some things our family does: no plastic things given to baby to put in mouth. We buy unfinished wood furniture and finish ourselves with beeswax (to avoid bad chemicals in furniture finish). Eat organic. Try to avoid plastic ourselves. Avoid vinyl anything. We use as environmentally friendly cleaning products as possible. -Angie Totten p.s. I'm new here and will be posting some questions soon. So far I have been totally overwhelmed by the sheer number of posts and am having trouble just reading them and figuring out whether I should save them, print them out, research the topic more, etc. On Sunday, May 28, 2006, at 07:40 AM, Sheri B. wrote: > So does anyone have any valid ways we can decrease our kids' exposure > to some of these things? No shots, of course, but what about just > living in this crazy world? Any pointers? > > We try to do non-toxic cleaning but do use standard clothes washing > detgt. and dishwashing powder. > > We never microwave in plastic and try not to use the microwave much > at all (sometimes we just " have " to, but it's much rarer now). > > Any pointers? > Sheri B. > > Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@...> wrote: > The newspaper's body burden project is available at > www.insidebayarea.com/bodyburden/ > > Children Show Highest Levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) > in > a California Family of Four -- A Case Study Environ Health Perspect: > Fischer D et al. Online 25 May 2006] > http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/8554/abstract.html > > * * * * > > `Body burden' investigation gets scientific credential > > FROM STAFF REPORTS > http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_3869633 > > > The results of this newspaper's investigation that found high levels of > commercial flame retardants in the blood of the two children in a > fairly > typical Bay Area family got an extra endorsement from the scientific > community on Friday. > > The peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published > by > the National Institute of Health, published a scientific write-up of > the > results online Thursday night. The article concludes children have > higher > levels of flame retardant in their blood and that those levels may be > high > enough to cause harm. > > ``This is a highly significant paper,'' wrote one of the anonymous > reviewers of the paper. ``We have a moral obligation to publish the > unfortunately high concentration in the toddler, (as) that should > prompt > more measurements and, perhaps more importantly, a revisiting of our > regulatory decisions.'' > > The paper details in more scientific terms the basic finding of the > newspapers' investigation that was first published in March 2005: In > tests > of a Berkeley family's blood, hair and urine for a variety of chemical > contaminants - plastics, PCBs, even the chemical precursors to Teflon > and > ScotchGuard - the two young children in many cases had higher levels > than > the parents. > > This was particularly - and, for researchers, alarmingly - true for a > class of flame retardants known as PBDEs, or polybrominated diphenyl > ethers. Used to suppress the ignition of foam, textiles, and certain > plastics, the chemicals have been showing up in blood and breast milk > samples at increasing rates in the United States. Almost everyone in > world > is thought to have some level of contamination, but levels in America > are > 10 > > Advertisement > > to 100 times higher than Europe and Japan. > > But only adults have been tested. This newspaper's investigation was > one > of the first to test children under the age of 5, and their levels were > two to five times higher than the parents. The youngest - Rowan Hammond > Holland - was 18 months old when initially tested, yet scientists > found a > PBDE concentration of almost 700 parts-per-billion in his blood. > > His sister, Mikaela, had nearly 400 ppb. Both parents were at about 100 > ppb, about normal for Californians. Scientists have found evidence of > behavioral and reproductive problems in rats at about 300 ppb. > > ``What we are seeing here is very serious,'' said Ake Bergman, a > co-author > on the study and a professor of environmental chemistry at Stockholm > University in Sweden who helped analyze the family's blood samples, in > an > interview last year. ``If in fact you have exposure the first few years > that is exceeding the parents' this may have - this may have - > implications for brain development.'' > > The scientific paper is available online at www.ehponline.org. The > newspaper project is available at www.insidebayarea.com/bodyburden/ > > * > > The material in this post is distributed without > profit to those who have expressed a prior interest > in receiving the included information for research > and educational purposes.For more information go to: > http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html > http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/documents.htm > If you wish to use copyrighted material from this > email for purposes that go beyond 'fair use', you > must obtain permission from the copyright owner. > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath > Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK > $$ Donations to help in the work - accepted by Paypal account > earthmysteriestours@... voicemail US 530-740-0561 > (go to http://www.paypal.com) or by mail > Vaccines - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm > Vaccine Dangers On-Line course - > http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccineclass.htm > Reality of the Diseases & Treatment - > http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccineclass.htm > Homeopathy On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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