While this page: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-are-safe.html says polyethelene (in the forms of PET, PETE, HDPE) is safe, the author at the first link goes to pains to say she read a 33 page report detailing why it's not. So I dunno.
It wouldn't be a big issue except coincidentally I've been reading how BPA in particular is bad in a number of ways and can act as a a form of estrogen, and I used to drink (through early 2016, from roughly 2003 or '04 or so) water from plastic bottles (all my water, 24/7) and re-heated food in plastic containers from the 90s until a few years ago, so I'm thinking that could be the resultant estrogen imbalance I'm suspecting, which is making me side-eye all plastics pretty hard now.
I'm to the point I want to stop buying plastic throwaway cups, throw out all our plastic food containers, and replace everything that can leach anything with glass or stainless steel. I'm not looking forward to it because of cost and the fact that I can expect OP to drop and break all the glass anythings within a few months, but for our health even that extreme of spending (to replace it all on a regular basis) might be worth it.
There's something going on with my joints now, too: more on than off over the last few weeks I've had a bone ache that runs through my spine, legs, neck and hands, all at once, all day/all night. I'm on OTC pain relief for it as I write this. For months before it was just my neck (and that seemed bad enough). I don't know if it's the beginnings of a form of arthritis or some other issue, but I'm thinking I have to minimize any possible causes or aggregators of inflammation before it gets any worse.
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While this page: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-are-safe.html says polyethelene (in the forms of PET, PETE, HDPE) is safe, the author at the first link goes to pains to say she read a 33 page report detailing why it's not. So I dunno.
It wouldn't be a big issue except coincidentally I've been reading how BPA in particular is bad in a number of ways and can act as a a form of estrogen, and I used to drink (through early 2016, from roughly 2003 or '04 or so) water from plastic bottles (all my water, 24/7) and re-heated food in plastic containers from the 90s until a few years ago, so I'm thinking that could be the resultant estrogen imbalance I'm suspecting, which is making me side-eye all plastics pretty hard now.
I'm to the point I want to stop buying plastic throwaway cups, throw out all our plastic food containers, and replace everything that can leach anything with glass or stainless steel. I'm not looking forward to it because of cost and the fact that I can expect OP to drop and break all the glass anythings within a few months, but for our health even that extreme of spending (to replace it all on a regular basis) might be worth it.
There's something going on with my joints now, too: more on than off over the last few weeks I've had a bone ache that runs through my spine, legs, neck and hands, all at once, all day/all night. I'm on OTC pain relief for it as I write this. For months before it was just my neck (and that seemed bad enough). I don't know if it's the beginnings of a form of arthritis or some other issue, but I'm thinking I have to minimize any possible causes or aggregators of inflammation before it gets any worse.