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Cooking with black plastic might not be good for you

Mmmm, delicious brominated fire retardant and mystery metals from recycled electronic waste!

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Oct 31, 2024
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If you're worried about microplastics, you should certainly not be scraping your hot cooking surfaces or slapping your food around with soft black plastic. Worse, some is recycled from electronics waste and may contain things even less appetizing than polyethylene.

For the past several years, I've been telling my frie…

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