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hollydolly said:
Did you also know that Black plastics are more likely to contain unregulated amounts of toxic chemicals including heavy metals and flame retardants which can leach into food and pose a hazard to human health. In addition, black plastics are not recyclable due to their colour.

So Cooking utenisl which are traditionally Black..like spatulas ladles etc... should be replaced... and I never use those Black clear lidded plastic disposable dishes that you can buy in Costco for this very reason...



The black color is created by adding a substance called carbon black to the plastic. Carbon black which contains numerous compounds, some of which like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have carcinogenic properties that have lead the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to classify carbon black as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” It is not yet known if carbon black leaches out of black plastic containers into food during microwaving but we would not recommend microwaving food in any color of plastic container (see our fact sheet on microwaving plastics for more details.)

Although black plastic makes up 15% of all plastic recyclables (largely single-use food containers), the vast majority is not recycled because the technology used by recycling facilities to sort plastics cannot “see” the color black. These materials reclamation facilities (known as MRFs for short) use an infrared light (known as Near Infrared or NIR for short) to sort the plastics by color and as carbon black absorbs infrared light, the facility simply does not register black plastics and they do not get sorted for recycling. As a result of this failure, most black plastic items end up in our landfills, incinerators, or littered in our environment after just a single use.

Due to the lack of recycled black plastic, the demand is often met with e-waste (discarded electronics like old computers, phones, TVs, monitors, speakers, and appliances) that contains toxic chemicals such as phthalates, flame retardants, and heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, nickel, chromium, and mercury.
These chemical-laced plastics are melted down, mixed with food grade plastics and turned into children’s toys, single-use utensils and coffee stirrers, hot cup lids, cooking implements, insulated mugs, jewelry, garden hoses, and holiday decorations, among other items.
Why Black Plastic Is Bad News — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
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No, I had no idea there were important issues with black plastic. Thank you for telling me about it. I used to use the black plastic quart sized containers for freezing meals made in advance.

Thank you!
 

hollydolly said:
Afternoon Peeps of SF..on this grey dull Sunday .....

First day of the clocks going back so it will get dark much earlier this evening...apparently 4.46pm....

Did enough yesterday that I'm not doing very much today....my hands are hurting anyway. For 2 days after i've seen the physiotherapist they don't hurt as bad... but last night I kept waking up with the pain in my arm..... the insurance has only paid for 8 physio sessions, and I've only got 4 more to go... might have to arrange for more...

Have the best day you can .... 🌺 :D
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HI Hollydolly, we turn our clocks back in U.S this coming Sat,11/2 except for 2 states.I think they are Arizona & Indiana
I don't know why we still need to do so Sue
 
WheatenLover said:
No, I had no idea there were important issues with black plastic.
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fyi - there was a big scare last year about it, but then a few months later it turned out the researchers made a math mistake and so their conclusions about the danger were incorrect -- they said the black utensils were putting approx 34,000 nanograms of the toxins into people each day, and they thought the safe daily dose was 42,000 nanograms, but it turned out the safe daily dose is actually 420,000 nanograms, so the black plastic was safely within the daily safe exposure.

Luckily although I freaked out about it all, I hadn't actually thrown away my brand new black spatula yet. So whew, the correction was in time for me.
 

HoneyNut said:
fyi - there was a big scare last year about it, but then a few months later it turned out the researchers made a math mistake and so their conclusions about the danger were incorrect -- they said the black utensils were putting approx 34,000 nanograms of the toxins into people each day, and they thought the safe daily dose was 42,000 nanograms, but it turned out the safe daily dose is actually 420,000 nanograms, so the black plastic was safely within the daily safe exposure.

Luckily although I freaked out about it all, I hadn't actually thrown away my brand new black spatula yet. So whew, the correction was in time for me.
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I think you probably need to do a little more reasearch on it tbh....
 
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