Consumers Turn From Plastics and Choose Glass
Published: 30 May 2008
Category: Bisphenol A (BPA), Packaging CONCERNS
According to the “Globe and Mail,” with Health Canada set to ban polycarbonate baby bottles, which contain the alleged estrogen-mimicking chemical bisphenol A, many Canadians are seeing all the plastics around them in a newly unflattering light and scrambling for alternatives such as glass jars. A food writer suggests we reject foods our great-grandmothers would not recognize: “The plastic-free folks don’t let their food touch anything their great-grandmothers wouldn’t recognize. So no plastic wrap. No plastic sandwich containers or juice jugs.” Glass baby bottles have reportedly quickly come “back into vogue.”