To say that if you want to reduce plastic waste then this is the article to read

[Rhubarbisevil]

And it’s nothing to do with recycling

www.healthline.com/nutrition/what-is-bpa

I am looking at ways to improve my health and this article popped up on Healthline - they publish a lot of magazines ie Men’s Health etc,

This is an article about BPA, its effect on our bodies, and how even BPA free plastics are not that great.

I’m at a loss as to how to start reducing the amount of plastic coming into the house - even organic food is smothered in plastic. I am going to use the veg market more and look at this seriousy.

The upside is that if we focus on how to avoid bringing any plastic into our houses and bodies, then the recycling will take care of itself. But how? Where do we even start? It’s time to lobby the packaging companies.

But there's no way that we can avoid it, if manufacturers etc won't change their packing methods.

Here is another interesting article about alternative food storage containers. The big shock here is that apparently, according to the author, it is not good to heat silicon in the oven . I have a drawer full of silicon baking/muffin trays!

www.nontoxicreboot.com/best-food-storage-containers/

I apologise if I sound preachy but DH’s parents and uncles have all succumbed to cancer. His genes don’t look good and I am worrying for our own child now.

I thought I would start this thread in General Health but I was so shocked about BPA/BPS plastic that I posted it in AIBU.

I understand @Ponoka7, this is the dilemma. Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s plastic programme highlighted how expensive and inconvenient it is to buy loose food from the farmers markets. Even then, meat is wrapped in a plastic film but I suppose contact time is less.

Some of us have been lobbying for 25 bloody years and they still just reply with standard letters (actually that has got worse, at least I used to feel they’d read them!) This needs proper legislation. But the supermarkets are the ones who profit most they are starting to listen (Morrison’s and some Waitrose) Maybe look to see if you have a food co-op near you (not the chain, a group of people who club together to buy)

And if you’re worried about your health maybe watch ‘Forks Over Knives’ (Netflix)

Thank you, I will. Our local garden centre has installed one of those nozzle systems for pasta and cereals. I start using that now. It all boils down to Pound Power doesn’t it?

Sadly true, you might be interested in 'donut economics' too and the wise words of George Monbiot. Unfortunately quick cheap food often brings problems. One example, chlorinated chicken (and chlorine salads or flouride in general) issues are not solely about bacteria, if we ingest chlorine or fluoride and have a diet low in iodine the chlorine or the fluoride (added to many water supplies) binds to the thyroid in place of the iodine the thyroid really wants (because its more plentiful in our diets in the UK). This can result in a thyroid that doesn't do its job properly and can result in weight gain/obesity. Low iodine is also linked to breast cancer. The further we step away from our 'natural diet' as the animals we are, the more likely health issues can arise. The soil is depleted from using fertilisers which 'skew' the bacterial in the soil (by not being a good diet for them) and so the things which grow on the soil may be depleted too.
The human animal is 'programmed' to seek out salt, sugar and fat calorie dense, to last us in times when there is less, except we no longer have lean times, and we don't have to chase a hamburger down the road to burn off the calories (that may work - insist Burger King and MacDonalds have to tie their burgers to the back of a bus and people have to run after them!)The manufactures get their profits and we get hooked and the government is complicit and people say its freedom of choice, but is it, when not all the facts are presented?
Ooo bit of a rant there! I'm getting older and want change.