Comments on: You may be more screwed than you think http://blog.chipx86.com/2007/05/01/you-may-be-more-screwed-than-you-think/ Various stuff from some guy. Thu, 03 May 2012 12:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ronin http://blog.chipx86.com/2007/05/01/you-may-be-more-screwed-than-you-think/#comment-876 Wed, 09 May 2007 21:09:21 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=220#comment-876 Wow that’s really scary stuff. Kelly, thanks for the guide to plastics.

]]> By: Kelly Clowers http://blog.chipx86.com/2007/05/01/you-may-be-more-screwed-than-you-think/#comment-875 Thu, 03 May 2007 06:13:30 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=220#comment-875 The fun thing about BPA is that it is one member of a really broad group of chemicals called endocrine disrupters. There has not really been enough testing done to determine the safety – or lack thereof – of these compounds. More info at these websites:

http://www.ourstolenfuture.org
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/endocrine/index_en.htm

Although there is not enough evidence to panic, I always say “Better safe than sorry, especially if being safe doesn’t require too much work”. So I am moving away from plastic food and beverage containers when it is fairly easy (e.g. using glass or ceramic containers for storing leftovers) and when it is harder, I look for polypropylene (#5 PP) or low- or high- density polyethylene (#4 LDPE, #2 HDPE).

PP and PE are probably safer than Polycarbonate or Polystyrene . Bottled water usually uses PET(E), and many (most?) other food and drink containers are PP or PE. I will also be replaceing my bike’s water bottle (which was polyethylene) with a stainless steel “Klean Kanteen”.

I always avoid PVC, because it is impossible to recycle, and is really nasty health- and environment- wise. Greenpeace, despite being crazy in many respects, has a pretty good guide to plastics.

Wow, that became quite the rant.

]]> By: mibus http://blog.chipx86.com/2007/05/01/you-may-be-more-screwed-than-you-think/#comment-874 Thu, 03 May 2007 02:28:44 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=220#comment-874 I generally don’t worry about stuff until after there’s formal proof. It’s like premature optimisation – understand it before you worry about it, unless it’s being an obvious ‘killer’ problem. Otherwise you’ll over-react and are more likely to make bad long-term choices.

It’s unlikely that sort of problem, or we would have worked it out well before now.

]]> By: Máirín http://blog.chipx86.com/2007/05/01/you-may-be-more-screwed-than-you-think/#comment-873 Thu, 03 May 2007 01:56:11 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=220#comment-873 I vaguely remember my Japanese teacher in college going kind of nutty over this, I guess they know about it in Japan; I vaguely remember her telling us never to microwave foods in plastic containers because it releases the chemicals into the food.

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