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Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy – is multi-level marketing in trouble? (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (30 children)

Time to move to glass instead of plastic pollution

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Got any hot tips on high quality affordable glass containers without plastic components? Standard gaskets, or ones which can be cut from silicone and replaced as needed are ok.

Ideally should survive small drops and boiling water.

There are expensive junk ones at my IGA but something like old Pyrex would be good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I have been using beeswax wraps on borosilicate glass containers

Part of me wonders if silicones act like microplastics too

[–] hangonasecond 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499202/

Here's an interesting study showing that silicone does break down into nanoparticles under mechanical wear, although the particles are chemically stable and non-toxic, and notably compared to plastic, are not released by heating alone.