Pay attention to your Plastics Use

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Thing we noticed was that normally look at the code contained in the bottom of plastic containers. The code indicates what type of plastic material it is made. The code in the form of a triangle that consists of 3 arrows or the letter which stands a plastic fabric. By knowing the types of plastic raw materials, we can determine whether the types of food are harmful or not.

Here are the codes to look for:

     * PETE PET plastic
       1: Terephalate Polyethylene (PET / PETE)

       Usually a beverage container from the mineral with transparent colors. The container is especially intended disposable. Because the longer it is in the container, the chemical content of the more soluble.
       
     * HDPE plastic PE-HD
       2: High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)

       Usually used as a drug packaging or cosmetic ingredients.
       
     PVC plastic *
       3: polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

       Is the most dangerous substances. Often used as a channel of water, building materials, sometimes used as toys. To the parents can consider their children as toys for children under the age of
       
     * PE-LD LDPE plastic
       4: Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)

       Used to wrap vegetables and frozen meat.
       
     * PP plastic
       5: Polypropylene (PP)

       Used for packaging food, beverages, margarine, shampoo bottles or baby bottles.
       
     * PS plastic
       6: polystyrene (PS)

       Polystyrene is a substance harmful to the body. If oily foods are heated in these containers, styrene can be moved into the food, then use this material as food containers are not recommended. Form of glass and styrofoam food dishes that have long been considered as a cause of cancer, spoons and forks, box of CDs.
       
     * OTHER O plastic
       7: Other Categories

       Included in this category is a plastic material that is not included in category 6 above. In this category, including Polycarbonate is also dangerous for the body. However, there is also a good material for the environment because it can be parsed called bioplastik flour made from corn, potatoes, sugar cane.
       

Raw foods are safe to use a coded 2,4,5. For No.7 code for not clearly informed of what material is made, it must be so noted and sought to know from what material it is made palstik. As for the other codes we should use the recommended so as not to endanger our health.