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Realized I was washing my recycling bins with hot water for two years before someone stopped me
My neighbor saw me hosing down the plastic bins with hot water last week and asked if I was trying to melt them into art. I thought hot water cleaned better. He told me it uses way more energy and the plastic degrades faster into microplastics that end up in the water system anyway. I just never thought about it. Anyone else been doing some household chore wrong and making the climate problem worse without realizing it?
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brooket436d ago
degrading into microplastics" is exactly why cold water and a scrub brush is the real move.
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ray_sullivan6d ago
Yeah, "degrading into microplastics" is a nice way of saying you're seasoning your scrambled eggs with plastic dust. I'll pass on that. Cold water and a scrub brush works fine, plus you don't have to wonder if your nonstick pan is slowly feeding you a toxic science experiment. People act like scrubbing a pan is some kind of torture, but it takes like 30 seconds. Just scrub it, dry it, move on with your life.
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danielm806d ago
Ray, that "seasoned with plastic dust" line is gold.
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