Plastic bottles...are they bad? There are numbers 1-7 in the recycle symbol, they represent the type of plastic used...are any ok? Are any real bad? Most of the good liquid health products I see have the number 2.

Here's an older thread about it... https://www.natmedtalk.com/f24/4521-w...tics-safe.html

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BPA is not a small negative, its toxic.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/health/22well.html


To let you kmnow how much it leaks out, if take a solution and place a copper strip in it and measure the corrosion rate and then place a piece of plastic with BPA in it and set it in the solution for 2 minutes, the corrosion rate will go down over an order of magnitude. This stuff comes out of the plastics!

When I try the link, it says...page not found

Try this one...https://www.natmedtalk.com/f24/4521-w...tics-safe.html

Matrix is in the process of doing some fine-tuning with the forum, so some links may temporarily be affected.

Oh. That's why I can't search on wifi and EMF discussions we have had.

Here are 2 links that will help choose which plastics are safe/er.

https://www.care2.com/greenliving/whi...-are-safe.html

https://www.seventhgeneration.com/lea...r-kitchens-bag

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okay so BPA is bad...and some plastics in the 7 category contain it and others don't, I have seen on some with the 7 that also have a 5 compatible mark and being that it appears that 2, 4 and 5 are the safest, does that mean that the 7 with the 5 compatible are BPA free? Does anyone know?

bisphenol A

Flexible type 3 plastics may leak bisphenol A


"In general, plastics that are marked with recycle codes 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are very unlikely to contain BPA. Some, but not all, plastics that are marked with recycle codes 3 or 7 may be made with BPA."[27]
There are seven classes of plastics used in packaging applications. Type 7 is the catch-all "other" class, and some type 7 plastics, such as polycarbonate (sometimes identified with the letters "PC" near the recycling symbol) and epoxy resins, are made from bisphenol A monomer.[5][28]
Type 3 (PVC) can also contain bisphenol A as an antioxidant in plasticizers.[5] This is particularly true for "flexible PVC", but not true for PVC pipes.

This little tune has helped me to remember which plastics are better than others:

5, 4, 1 and 2 - all the rest aren't good for you. (can you tell I was a cheerleader for 6 years?)